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Why must Apple do this? They're already rolling in profits that dwarf the national budgets of most countries. And I say this as a shameless Apple fanboy.
Honestly, I use iOS purely as anti-Facebook guardrails I trust there's granular permissions so that Zuckerberg can't scrape contacts I understand there's corruption, and that annoys me. I wish Apple remained pure. But you still have to do this. Zuck is malicious as hell and we need sandboxes
This is the Apple I've always worried would emerge.
It's been like this for a while, the top results for a lot of known apps are scam impersonators. So much for the so called "safety" of the appstore. In fact, they had so many ChatGPT fake apps showing as top results that they had to do something as users couldn't find the real one and it reached the news.
This is after claiming for many years that the walled garden is a necessity to protect users, and their app store is a safely curated utopia which justifies the 30% fee cut.
Apple’s Ads business is around 8-10 billion dollars in revenue. Thats a tiny fraction of their overall revenue.
So why dont they?
What if we all Venmo'd Tim Apple 5 bucks so he wouldn't be forced to do this?
Apple wouldn’t exactly go broke without this, maximising profits is the only goal and any ‘good’ behaviours and ethos will erode over time. Apple might take user privacy seriously now, but don’t assume that will be the case forever.
They dont and never have, its all marketing.
How do you think those app store adds are displayed to you? They profile you like any other ad company to figure out which ads you are most likely to click on to generate them more revenue.
I read the title then looked at the screenshots and thought what? It still says "ad."
It is kinda interesting how like every company seems to go through this flow of highlighting that something is an ad (usually even with some differing background color like what Google used to do!), and then they just pull back differentiators more and more until it really is the smallest minimal marker possible
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Amazon is particularly wild because you can use the site without realizing %70 of your results are ads.
I‘d argue it‘s often 100% unless you are looking for things so extremely specific no one paid ad/placement money for it.
The search results in the App Store are ridiculous. Sometimes I search for an app by name and have to scroll through dozens of other apps before finding the one I had searched for. App Store search is as broken as Apple Mail search, if not worse.
You should see what Google has done with the latest version of the Phone app. You used to be able to click on contacts and that would show you.. your contacts. Now it shows recent calls with a search bar for contacts. Say I want to call a friend named Dave. As soon as I start typing, search results begin populating, but none of the names it offers start with "D", they just contain "D" somewhere. It could be the middl…
The Contacts app is worse and returns anything with a string anywhere in the contact details starting with that letter.
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Then use a vendor-agnostic platform instead for group chats like Signal or Matrix.
It would be great if people actually did this, but in the US that is not the case. There are only so many people you can convince to move off of their main platform, and usually you have to meet people where they are.