John Gruber blogging about why there’s no way to disable Apple ads:

Apple doesn’t offer ad-free tiers for the App Store or (soon) Apple Maps because, I think, they can’t bring themselves to admit that by adding ads to these services they have made them worse.

Also, me in 2010: I hope iAd fails.

@manton your predictions make you sound like a madman… unfortunately for everyone they are spot on 😭

@illogical_me Haha. Yeah, that post held up pretty well unfortunately.