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Adding advertising likely will cost them hardware sales. if so, their hardware branch might have enough clout to keep their advertising branch under control. P

Adding advertising likely will cost them hardware sales. if so, their hardware branch might have enough clout to keep their advertising branch under control. Phrased another way: adding a few billions of advertising revenue wouldn’t make Apple an advertising company, just as selling smartphones hasn’t made Google a hardware company

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smoldesu 4y ago
They already have advertising, at least in MacOS. Every time I put on my headphones I get a pop-up ad for Apple Music, and I can't hide iCloud or Safari's constant nagging to get me to use them. Everyone has their own limits, but I left the ecosystem after Mojave (with this being one reason).
- kaba0 4y ago
  I don’t know, is that really advertisement? These seems more akin to a program’s popup of its new features or that you can also go pro. Sure, nitpickingly these are ads, but they are related to the context, not intrusive, and not coming from a third party. If anything, it is more analogous to my friend telling me about that vacuum cleaner he bought that he finds a great buy when I bring up the topic of vacuum cleaners. Surely, it is still an ad, but you get the difference.
  - Someone 4y ago
    If “Every time I put on my headphones I get a pop-up ad for Apple Music” is true, don’t see how you could call that “not intrusive”. If I got an advertisement for a new iPhone every time I woke up my current one, IMO ‘intrusive’ would be too kind a word to use, too. I also think “related to the context” is debatable. Headphones aren’t only used to listen to music.
    - kaba0 4y ago
      > If “Every time I put on my headphones I get a pop-up ad for Apple Music” is true, don’t see how you could call that “not intrusive”. It is not true, simple as that
      - smoldesu 4y ago
        It's been default for a few years now: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250789620 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250789620
        kaba0 4y ago
        That’s a mac, and while I agree it is one of those pesky, annoying ones, it is likely more of an oversight/not enough people care thingy to count it as a bug. I use a mac and an iphone without apple music and never seen anything like that.
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smoldesu 4y ago

They already have advertising, at least in MacOS. Every time I put on my headphones I get a pop-up ad for Apple Music, and I can't hide iCloud or Safari's constant nagging to get me to use them. Everyone has their own limits, but I left the ecosystem after Mojave (with this being one reason).

kaba0 4y ago
I don’t know, is that really advertisement? These seems more akin to a program’s popup of its new features or that you can also go pro. Sure, nitpickingly these are ads, but they are related to the context, not intrusive, and not coming from a third party. If anything, it is more analogous to my friend telling me about that vacuum cleaner he bought that he finds a great buy when I bring up the topic of vacuum cleaners. Surely, it is still an ad, but you get the difference.
- Someone 4y ago
  If “Every time I put on my headphones I get a pop-up ad for Apple Music” is true, don’t see how you could call that “not intrusive”. If I got an advertisement for a new iPhone every time I woke up my current one, IMO ‘intrusive’ would be too kind a word to use, too. I also think “related to the context” is debatable. Headphones aren’t only used to listen to music.
  - kaba0 4y ago
    > If “Every time I put on my headphones I get a pop-up ad for Apple Music” is true, don’t see how you could call that “not intrusive”. It is not true, simple as that
    - smoldesu 4y ago
      It's been default for a few years now: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250789620 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250789620
      - kaba0 4y ago
        That’s a mac, and while I agree it is one of those pesky, annoying ones, it is likely more of an oversight/not enough people care thingy to count it as a bug. I use a mac and an iphone without apple music and never seen anything like that.
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