What a bad-faith comment. You just wanted to launch into an anti-Apple lecture and it doesn’t sound like you have the slightest clue about this specific topic. Have you watched the iAds presentation? They’re not like any other advertisements I’ve seen before. CERTAINLY not at the time. You can see exactly why advertisers didn’t bite.

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bitpush a day ago | parent [-]

Honest question. If iAds were so good, why didnt it succeed?

When something is successful its all Apple. When something fails, its just that others dont get it.

Do you afford the same benefit to other people/companies? Why is Apple so special?

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sirwhinesalot 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Because they were good for the customer rather than the advertiser, and the money to Apple came from the advertiser in this case.

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bitpush 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Ads in Apple Maps. How is it user friendly?

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wolvoleo 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's probably the single one time where I would actually want ads.

For example roaming the city at 4am on a Saturday and trying to find some place with hot food. Google failed miserably at this. Eventually I found something but just because I knew it was often open at night. It was also marked open on Google Maps but never came up in searches there. Probably other places paid Google more for a listing despite being closed at that time.

Not sure how Apple does with this as I don't have any Apple anymore except a work iPad. It's too limited for me in terms of what I can install. But there's certainly some room for improvement in mapping.

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theendisney 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Hah, that Google experience clicking though closed closed closed... Okay fine, i will accept my stupidity for even considering this approach. Wont happen again.

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		There's an "open only" button?

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sirwhinesalot 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not iAd. Different ads