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> The attempts at upselling sure are a bit icky but calling it "Adware", when all it's advertising are company own services, is a bit weird. If a major purpose
by JadeNB 5y ago
> The attempts at upselling sure are a bit icky but calling it "Adware", when all it's advertising are company own services, is a bit weird.
If a major purpose of the software is to show me ads, then it's adware. As a consumer, it doesn't make my experience any less crappy if those ads are for products from the same company that made the software.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoA button in Apple Pay that says "Add an Apple Card" is hardly even an upsell. The author is an iOS developer for Microsoft and this piece is basically "APPLE BE EVVIIIIIIL!!!!!!!" shrieking. Their employer's operating system is incredibly invasive with its "telematics", and oh by the way, bundles a shitload of MS and third party junk nobody wants, constantly pesters you to use their browser, etc. Microsoft is annoyed that installing MS Teams, Skype, etc on an iPhone doesn't give them heaps of information about you. This piece is part of their war to get people onto Android, which is literally purpose-built to collect data on its users.
- Angostura 5y ago> If a major purpose of the software is to show me ads, then it's adware. But it isn't - so it isn't.
- JadeNB 5y agoI was responding to the claim that a company advertising its own products meant it wasn't adware, not saying anything about whether or not iOS is.