Apple to shut down iAd App Network on June 30

bestkeptsecret

vvswarup said:

 Steve Jobs was a great CEO but questionable human being. 

Aren't we all?

brandt

I'm confused, is iAd going away entirely, or just the ability for developers to buy ads to promote their apps?

gatorguy

bestkeptsecret said:

gatorguy said:

corrections said:

Google already copied everything about iAd Producer with its Web Designer in 2013, no nothing really to sell.

There's also Adobe's Edge Animate which pre-dated Apple's effort. Adobe has abandoned it now AFAIK. Of course iAd is more than iAd Producer anyway.

So are you saying Google copied from Adobe and not Apple?

If there was copying going on then I suppose it's possible the answer is yes, both got the idea from Adobe as you suggested. 

jungmark

Apple is doomed. I wonder how WS will try to link this to its annual Apple is doomed narrative. 

gatorguy

brandt said:

I'm confused, is iAd going away entirely, or just the ability for developers to buy ads to promote their apps?

iAd isn't going anywhere, Apple is just getting out of the middle of it. What exactly that means from the user end of things is unclear for now.

k2kw

rogifan_old said:

stevie said:

This is a good move.  iAd was a bungled mess since day one.

It is better to just cut their losses and move on.

Is there anything under Eddy that isn't? An article just came out about merchants not signing on to Pay. Apple took for granted that merchants would just sign on and they haven't. Whole Foods is the only merchant that has Pay in every one of its stores. I love it but I've got maybe 2 or 3 stores where I can use it. And they're all grocery stores.

http://www.pymnts.com/news/2016/apple-pays-merchant-problem/

Cue needs to be let go.    is there anything he's involved with that doesn't have problems?