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."

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Re:This is a real thing? Seriously?

[VendettaMF]

No argument there, but for the OS/Hardware manufacturer to be encouraging this (and no doubt skimming the profits)?

Ah well, they have a locked down system, no doubt there'll be a blanket ban of all ad-blocking software and hosts file editing. Not much to be done except shop elsewhere and leave Apple and their victims to their inevitable security nightmare.

iAds-blocking app?

[FuckingNickName]

Could someone please link to software on the App Store which can be used to block iAds?

I'm assuming Apple isn't so totalitarian as to require you to view adverts on your own property, but I can't find such an app anywhere.

Re:iAds-blocking app?

[FuckingNickName]

If you do not like it, please develop your own platform and release it to us with the restrictions you don't like removed. We'll be waiting.

"If you don't like it, leave and found your own nation. Otherwise put up with it." Grow up.

Oh, what, you don't have the expertise, time and money to donate to this project so it will be out soon? That's right, time and expertise are not free!

Bawwww, I worked so hard on my software and now someone wants to use it without me being able to force them to watch adverts. It's my right to express myself through software, and it's also my right to stop you from listening except on my terms. There was no progress in science and the useful arts before modern IP law.

Re:iAds-blocking app?

[FuckingNickName]

You just go to oo.apple.com on an iOS device and you're opted out of targeted iAds.

"Targeted" iAds, not iAds. So that's a no.

You choose apps without ads to avoid seeing ads altogether.

But I choose to not see ads, not to not use apps. So that's another no.

You're so good at offering me all these things I don't want. Next to me I have an empty Coke bottle, an aquarium reflector box and a secondary AA cell which no longer holds a charge - how could anything I advocate be unreasonable when I'm literally giving this shit away to you?

you can even use one without App Store, because iOS fully supports the HTML5 API.

Wow, that option sounds so appealing I can barely understand why there are so many thousands of apps and millions of app downloads.

If you don't like it, don't use it.

I shall use it if and as I please, and in the meanwhile I shall try to make it easier for the less technical to use as they please. Meanwhile, this great country (until the China Apple's just opened its first store in) gives you the freedom to take a different approach to me: in your case, you consider total praise or abandonment to be a true dichotomy. Enjoy! :-)

Re:iAds-blocking app?

[FuckingNickName]

Seriously, you want to download ad-ware but you don't want to watch the ads? Can you whine a little louder?

Thank you. You have summed up everything that is wrong with the Apple user community. I'll be adding that quote - attributed, of course - to my siguature rotation.

Excuse me while I go and watch 20 minutes of adverts. I skipped through them last time I recorded a movie and I'm feeling guilty that some corporation somewhere isn't getting my attention.

Re:iAds-blocking app?

[FuckingNickName]

When you skip adverts watching a movie, you're not preventing someone from getting paid - that's already done in advance, and it's not a fair comparison.

Don't be obtuse. When you open a store and I neither buy stuff from your store nor recommend your store nor send others to buy something at your store nor do anything which causes money to enter your pocket, I'm not, "preventing you from geting paid," you child of the age of entitlement.

I, as the owner and user of my 'phone, get to choose whether I view or click on an ad. If either of those acts cause you to be paid, I get to choose whether to you are paid. But it isn't "preventing" you from being paid if I choose to do neither, just as I'm not "preventing" you from paying me just because I'm telling you right now that reading this post costs you $5.29 but you're not enabling the transfer of funds to my bank account.

Everyone else is welcome to pay you if they want, either directly or indirectly. No-one is preventing people from paying you if they choose to. You hint at morality in requiring people to pay you, directly or indirectly. Get over your lazy sense of entitlement.

Re:iAds-blocking app?

[FuckingNickName]

And you outright say you have no problems taking things for free that weren't meant to be free, directly or indirectly. Get over your lazy sense of entitlement.

How can a thing - in this case, the expression of an idea - mean to be anything? It just exists. You're not even making any sense.

In the US, you have a limited monopoly on the distribution of a subset of sufficiently original ideas and expressions. It is not even something you are inherently entitled to; it is merely what you are granted by society for promotion of sciences and the useful arts.

You are entitled to nothing, especially not to force other people to do things. This includes a lack of entitlement to force my eyes to look at adverts.

Re:iAds-blocking app?

[gnasher719]

Pay attention. The issue I have with Apple is their not admitting iAds-blocking apps to the store. They are thus requiring you to view ads if you want to remain in their walled garden and enjoy the full range of apps.

God, you are so stupid. If an application shows iAds advertisements then it does that because the developer decided that it should do that, so that the developer makes some money. If the developer decides that you shouldn't see iAds advertisements then you don't see them. If you don't want to see these adverts, don't download apps that show advertisement. 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. In addition, if Apple wanted to allow iAd blocking then it would be part of the OS. These ads come through an API provided by Apple, from servers under Apple's controls. Apple could easily enable users to turn iAds off. They don't because developers need money to produce apps. If you don't want apps, don't complain to Apple, buy a Windows 7 phone.

Steve Jobs will give you AiDs personally ...

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:iAD

[cervo]

The problem is that it is tempting to still buy it :) Hence why I said debating :) The iPad is very polished, and Mac OSX is also very tempting. The walled garden approach of the iphone/iPad sets a bad precedent. But anyway they are still nice devices. If they don't become the absolute future, then it is no big deal, but if everyone gets an iPad/iPhone and the alternatives go away, then we have a problem...

It's not just about $ ... iAds are better

[gig]

IAds are better ads. I wish they were available for websites. Google ads are the lowest-quality amateur bullshit ... Google has no fucking taste.