What Developers Think About Apple's iAd

Nemilar writes "It's been about a week since Apple rolled out its new advertising platform, and developers of iPhone apps are watching the earliest returns to see how much money they can expect to make from these ads. One developer reported Thursday that he earned $1,400 in one day for his flashlight app. The amount iAds pay is 'a high number when you get it, but you don't get it very often,' said Dave Yonamine, the director of marketing at MobilityWare. The article discusses revenue potential in relation to the only other mobile ads platform, AdMob for Android, and claims that iAd paid as much as $148 for the same number of ads as $1 on AdMob; but this extreme ratio is likely to erode as the novelty wears off."

Comments

Re:iAD

[AlXtreme]

However, IAd is no more intrusive than any other form of mobile advertising you might have encountered in the past (i.e. browsing nearly any website).

Ads on websites?

*hugs N900 with adblock plus*

Re:iAD

[BasilBrush]

But as people go, I dislike him. He is a threat to free software. Also he seems like a major jerk. He banned code generation just because flash made him cry like a baby.

How old are you?

Re:Speaking as an actual developer ...

[cowbud]

Yeah, they do it this way because they can't just kill that application ;) Unlike Android when you leave an application it dies in iOS. Yes they added "multitasking server/client support" but how many apps already do this? Don't confuse elegance with pure necessity.

Re:iAds-blocking app?

[FuckingNickName]

God, you are so stupid.

You have better manners on Macrumors. And you used to be quite reasonable before you got seduced by the fanboy environment.

If you don't want to see these adverts, don't download apps that show advertisement.

Why is it only in the Apple community that I get:

1. All options provided by your ingenuity rather than Apple are invalid and/or immoral;
2. If you don't like it, don't speak up about it - just get out of our clubhouse?

There is no f***ing way that Apple builds an infrastructure so that you see advertisements that are vetted from advertisers guaranteed to actually make payments to the developer and then allows some app to interfere with this.

So Apple creates for itself this conflict of interest, it's absolutely clear that it's taking advantage of it, and that's absolutely fine with you. How.. Apple.

This is like the way over 90% of Google's revenue is from ads so on its own browser platform it doesn't allow and host ad blocking extensions. Oh, wait, no.

(and before y'all axe)

if Apple wanted to allow iAd blocking then it would be part of the OS.

You're probably right there. Apple has a tendency not to like competing solutions on its iPhone, especially ones with more tweakability than Apple's own.

They don't because developers need money to produce apps.

Well, they need to pay Apple $99/year, yeah, but apart from that, not much more than any other decent development system. And you're surely not judging the App Store by the quantity of apps?

Re:iAD

[pgmrdlm]

you could use an iPhone and just not use App Store and get the same deal.

Then you would be purchasing the iCrap without the ability to have any aps at all. Oh, you forgot. iCrap only allows you to load applications that have been ok'd by the proprietary app store.
Have to love the apple fan club.