It used to be that they included a bunch of software to make their hardware more useful. But I guess they couldn't resist squeezing out a bit more revenue through enshittification. The profit motive is ultimately too strong. Ads on the lock screen and in the dock next?

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qwerpy 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> Ads on the lock screen and in the dock next?

Arguably already happened, via notifications. They've long allowed third-party apps to send notifications that are actually ads, and a few first-party apps (most notably wallet with the F1 movie ads last year) have started doing this too. Those made it to the lock screen, and if you happened to dock any of those apps, the obnoxious red notification dot would induce you to click on it.

Any app that did that to me lost its notification privileges permanently and got uninstalled if it wasn't a built-in app, but I suppose Apple could start directly injecting unavoidable ads too.

	▲	hdgvhicv 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Squeezing the extra 2% of revenue through making it shit has “no downsides” Voting with wallet doesn’t work, the power imbalance ya too large. This isn’t boycotting your local deli because they get rid of your favourite sandwich. Eventually china’s cultural takeover will win out and we can only hope it isn’t built on the parasitical advertising industry.