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2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by pjmlp »

al_borland wrote: post #3

I’m really not a fan of this direction for Apple. One of the differentiators between iOS and Google was a lack of ads, which make the experience feel more premium. Increasing ads, or having them at all, really erodes the user experience. Apple managed to become the most valuable company in the world without ads. Adding them after hitting that milestone feels either greedy or desperate, maybe a little of both. I know…

The John Sculley Apple is back, the time of being nice for survival reasons is long gone.

Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by thomassmith65 »

fodkodrasz wrote: post #10
dash2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, they seem to be moving from innovators to exploiting their user base. In particular, I interpret their AI failures as the innovator's dilemma. They have loads of highly paid people designing and creating beautiful UIs. A chatbot could replace a lot of this: just tell your phone what to do instead of clicking and swiping. But that would put most of their employees out of work. So instead they are going to milk a…

1. Their UIs were never beautiful or really good tbh. The iOS26 is the worst so far, and they really went too far this time. 2. They are no charity, they don't care for giving work to their designers. 3. They won't milk their userbase or long, friends and family are already abandoning their ecosystem due to v26's atrocious UI, I'll be doing so also. Adding more ads to the mix will just speed things up. I'm not sellin…

Presumably the person who wrote this comment is too young to have used Apple products prior to 2010?

Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

Apple is just another runner in the race to the bottom, and they're trying their best to catch up to 'the leaders'.

One thing I've noticed with the Play Store is that top-level advertised app results are, more often than not, totally unrelated to what I searched for, and therefore completely useless as both a suggestion to the user and an 'opportunity' for the app creator. In fact, it usually invokes a 'this app must be a scam' response from me.

Thank you, Apple, for increasing the number of opportunities for getting scammed and manipulated on your platform. I will be telling my friends.

Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by palmotea »

N_Lens wrote: post #8
al_borland wrote: post #3

I’m really not a fan of this direction for Apple. One of the differentiators between iOS and Google was a lack of ads, which make the experience feel more premium. Increasing ads, or having them at all, really erodes the user experience. Apple managed to become the most valuable company in the world without ads. Adding them after hitting that milestone feels either greedy or desperate, maybe a little of both. I know…

Enshittification is Inevitable.

> Enshittification is Inevitable.

Only under our current cultural and economic assumptions.

Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by [deleted] »

hhoorzad wrote: post #7
al_borland wrote: post #3

I’m really not a fan of this direction for Apple. One of the differentiators between iOS and Google was a lack of ads, which make the experience feel more premium. Increasing ads, or having them at all, really erodes the user experience. Apple managed to become the most valuable company in the world without ads. Adding them after hitting that milestone feels either greedy or desperate, maybe a little of both. I know…

> I’d rather pay an extra $100 for the phone than have ads all over it. In all likelihood, we will pay an extra $100 AND have ads.

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Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by bigyabai »

fasbiner wrote: post #39
mystifyingpoi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

THIS. Never promote the idea of "can you please not bother me with ads, there you go there is your extra $100, what, $200? okay sure". That's how mafia operates. Do not promote such.

People pay the mafia protection money because it's cheaper than fighting the mob and it makes the mob go away for awhile, and in the long run, we're all dead. Most mafia-like entities don't have an inexorable existential drive to take it all, they just charge what the market will bear. And if you think there's a definitional difference between a government, a corporation and a mafia that stands up to any objective me…

> and in the long run, we're all dead.

Well gee, when you put it like that all morality is relative huh?

Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by luz666 »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #13
ee64a4a wrote: post #9

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> Apple managed to become the most valuable company in the world without ads. Yeah, but what about next quarter? Jokes aside, they're not the most valuable company anymore. Nvidia is ahead, I think MS has jockeyed with them on that position a few times and is still on their heels, and Google is ascendant (even ahead of MS as of end of close) after the antitrust clouds started to recede and Gemini started to match Cla…

What will happen to nvidia when their market becomes saturated? That seems inevitable.

Maybe just reduce production amount an increase prices? Profit probably continues, but on a lower level, I guess.

Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by nottorp »

al_borland wrote: post #3

I’m really not a fan of this direction for Apple. One of the differentiators between iOS and Google was a lack of ads, which make the experience feel more premium. Increasing ads, or having them at all, really erodes the user experience. Apple managed to become the most valuable company in the world without ads. Adding them after hitting that milestone feels either greedy or desperate, maybe a little of both. I know…

> One of the differentiators between iOS and Google was a lack of ads

Newsflash: the first slot in an app store search is an ad that is not marked as such. Your extra $100 are already wasted.

Here's a nice ad I ran into recently:

https://imgur.com/a/sq1HFHK

I was trying to install microsoft authenticator and the first "result"... I don't want to know what that is.

If they add more ads at the top I suppose I'll have to only use external searches to install apps.

Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by rightbyte »

fasbiner wrote: post #39
mystifyingpoi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

THIS. Never promote the idea of "can you please not bother me with ads, there you go there is your extra $100, what, $200? okay sure". That's how mafia operates. Do not promote such.

People pay the mafia protection money because it's cheaper than fighting the mob and it makes the mob go away for awhile, and in the long run, we're all dead. Most mafia-like entities don't have an inexorable existential drive to take it all, they just charge what the market will bear. And if you think there's a definitional difference between a government, a corporation and a mafia that stands up to any objective me…

That seems rather reductionist.

Re: 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

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Post by littlecranky67 »

dangus wrote: post #49
user2722 wrote: post #43

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He/She meant _searching_ for apps for a functionality in App Store is a sure way to get gobbledygooky apps. He/She probably searches them on $SEARCH_ENGINE and uses the AppStore just for the download.

Ah, so using a different advertisement platform instead of this one. Let me put this another way: if you want to manually kick off app updates, you literally have to see ads. App Store > Today tab (the default view) has ads. Then you hit your profile button to escape the ad center and there is your app update interface. This has been normalized by basically all commercial OS platforms, but imagine how insanely negati…

$SEARCH_ENGINE engine is nowadays copilot or chatgpt, both ad-free if you use a simple ad-blocker.
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