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In my day-to-day usage, ads in the core user interface in iOS are worse than in Windows. Windows ads can be disabled pretty easily. iOS App Store ads cannot b

In my day-to-day usage, ads in the core user interface in iOS are worse than in Windows. Windows ads can be disabled pretty easily. iOS App Store ads cannot be disabled at all and are often for utter trash. The Microsoft Store is entirely optional, and app installs/updates can be entirely handled via winget/chocolatey (or installs in some other form). The iOS App Store cannot be avoided for installing apps or for manually updating apps, and its ads are more akin to forced ads in the Windows Update settings pane.

alistairSH 4y ago
...ads in the core user interface in iOS... Where are you seeing ads in the main UI? I occasionally see a small ad near the top of "Settings", usually for an Apple service. I don't recall ads on the home page or lock screen, or in the main Apple apps I use (Camera, Photos, Files, Health, Fitness, Watch).
- Marsymars 4y ago
  See my reply to other child comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615479
- sleepybrett 4y ago
  The only time you get those notifications is generally when you install a new os version and they want to tell you about a new feature. That feature might be 'hey we launched apple news that you can pay for'. The only other time is when you are close to your apple cloud limit it will tell you that you can subscribe to more space.
- mshroyer 4y ago
  Well on my work Mac I'm not signed into iCloud, and there's a permanent red notification dot, just as prominent as if I had an important system update waiting, begging me to create an account.
dustedcodes 4y ago
> ads in the core user interface in iOS I have never seen any ads anywhere in iOS. I'm utterly confused by this comment?
- Marsymars 4y ago
  I consider the App Store in iOS part of the core user interface. (As mentioned in my top-level comment, apps can't be installed or manually updated without using the App Store.) See https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/22/apple-announces-more-app-store-ads/ https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/22/apple-announces-more-ap...
  - quenix 4y ago
    That seems a bit unreasonable 1. The App Store is not a "core UI element"; 2. Even if it was, it's reasonable to see ads in a _store_. It's somewhere you go specifically in order to buy things and see companies' offerings. It's in the name -- a store. Like others have pointed out, no other portions of the OOB experience have ads.
    - Marsymars 4y ago
      Those points are both matters of opinion, with which I do not agree. (The first one doesn't particularly matter, because I'm forced to use the iOS App Store regardless of how you classify it, the second of which I forcefully disagree with - I am opposed to any ads that I cannot opt out of seeing. I don't go to the store to see ads, I go to download exactly the apps I want, and to update apps I already have installed - in both of those situations ads are unavoidable.) (And other portions of the OOB experience do have ads - as noted in my link, both the News and Stock apps, although I don't use either. And apparently soon the Maps app if it doesn't have ads already.)
      - antiframe 4y ago
        So in your opinion seeing an advertisement for an app on an app store is much worse than seeing an ad in your app launcher UI that you click on every time you go to launch an app?

alistairSH 4y ago

...ads in the core user interface in iOS... Where are you seeing ads in the main UI? I occasionally see a small ad near the top of "Settings", usually for an Apple service. I don't recall ads on the home page or lock screen, or in the main Apple apps I use (Camera, Photos, Files, Health, Fitness, Watch).

Marsymars 4y ago
See my reply to other child comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615479
sleepybrett 4y ago
The only time you get those notifications is generally when you install a new os version and they want to tell you about a new feature. That feature might be 'hey we launched apple news that you can pay for'. The only other time is when you are close to your apple cloud limit it will tell you that you can subscribe to more space.
mshroyer 4y ago
Well on my work Mac I'm not signed into iCloud, and there's a permanent red notification dot, just as prominent as if I had an important system update waiting, begging me to create an account.

dustedcodes 4y ago

> ads in the core user interface in iOS I have never seen any ads anywhere in iOS. I'm utterly confused by this comment?

Marsymars 4y ago
I consider the App Store in iOS part of the core user interface. (As mentioned in my top-level comment, apps can't be installed or manually updated without using the App Store.) See https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/22/apple-announces-more-app-store-ads/ https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/22/apple-announces-more-ap...
- quenix 4y ago
  That seems a bit unreasonable 1. The App Store is not a "core UI element"; 2. Even if it was, it's reasonable to see ads in a _store_. It's somewhere you go specifically in order to buy things and see companies' offerings. It's in the name -- a store. Like others have pointed out, no other portions of the OOB experience have ads.
  - Marsymars 4y ago
    Those points are both matters of opinion, with which I do not agree. (The first one doesn't particularly matter, because I'm forced to use the iOS App Store regardless of how you classify it, the second of which I forcefully disagree with - I am opposed to any ads that I cannot opt out of seeing. I don't go to the store to see ads, I go to download exactly the apps I want, and to update apps I already have installed - in both of those situations ads are unavoidable.) (And other portions of the OOB experience do have ads - as noted in my link, both the News and Stock apps, although I don't use either. And apparently soon the Maps app if it doesn't have ads already.)
    - antiframe 4y ago
      So in your opinion seeing an advertisement for an app on an app store is much worse than seeing an ad in your app launcher UI that you click on every time you go to launch an app?