Seeing a lot of retweets from @marco with screenshots of gambling apps ads on people’s iOS product page. Ugh! What a terrible user experience. It’s bad enough seeing these ads on TV. Did Apple foresee this happening when they rolled this ad placement out?
@lmika You mean the same group of people who have admitted that the vast majority of money made from the App Store is via terrible gambling apps, including plenty of effort put into the specific targeting of children? I’m confident they knew exactly what was going to happen.
This is one of those things that the “I trust Apple with my money” fans seem to never want to talk about. It is truly awful all around.
@SimonWoods Yes, I think this speaks a bit of truth about Apple now. They probably suspected that this would happen (I imagine that they could see who the top bidders of these ads are) and they just don’t care. As long as the money flows in.
I haven’t been an Apple user as long as others, so I don’t know how much was lost. But over the last few years, this move towards making decisions governed primarily by how much money they can get from it is pretty obvious and quite disgusting. This, plus the shakedown of app developers over IAP. Really doesn’t look good from out here.