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  • Advertisers 'staring into the abyss' as Apple limits ad tracking

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    I've never known why advertisers believe their ads are effective. 

    They are a bane to existence. I go to a site to read the material there. Anything that gets in the way of that task is a distraction. 

    What is worse is on many sites these popup ads actually prevent me from reading the article contents as the ads end up shifting the page layouts to accommodate the ad images, making it impossible to read the articles.

    Result -- totally avoid going to the sites now. Surprisingly I haven't missed them. 
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  • Apple kept iMessage off Android to lock users in to iOS

    larryjwlarryjw
    From the article it seems Apple tried to get providers to accept iMessage as a standard and they refused because of THEIR competitive advantages. 

    Hardly statement that Apple's intent was to keep iMessage running only on Apple devices. 
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  • Eddy Cue joining board of Tom Brady's NFT platform

    larryjwlarryjw
    Pet rocks are more valuable. 
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  • Another $1 million scam app surfaces amid App Store legal battles

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    asdasd said:

    larryjw said:
    launfall said:
    Good luck, Tim, when you're sitting in the witness chair during the Epic Games lawsuit explaining how you can justify your walled garden when it is so full of weeds you make money off of. And why, after being notified of bad apps they are still available in your store. Apple needs the app equivalent of Round-Up!
    Just the opposite. The ability of scam apps will reinforce the Walled Garden approach and the importance of Apple putting more resources into Walling-up the App Store -- which costs money.

    It even suggests that Apple shouldn't be giving away the App Store for free to developers. It makes no sense for developers to be in business if they don't make any money from their efforts -- that's not a business. If you're not making money by selling to your customer, and you're in business, you must be making money some other way -- selling the customer, scamming the customer? 
    Nothing from Apple is free, the developers who are giving away their apps for free are at least paying $99 a year.  Thats fairly expensive for just hosting data. Theres a bit more, but not much. 

    Plenty of companies will create free apps for their customers as a convince or a website replacement. My bank doesn't charge for its app, and the app is definitely a cost to it, but it adds plenty of convenience for their customers. Some apps are from bedroom developers. 

    Its pretty bad that this company didn't every have a website, though. 
    I pay far more for coffee per year than $99. 
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  • US official calls Cook's idea to vote on iPhone 'preposterous'

    larryjwlarryjw
    Of course you'll notice this official is concerned with iPhone users being "lefties". Maybe he'd like it more if people could vote using Trump's Twitter feed.

    Anyway, the technology might already be available to vote by iPhone, but it is yet to be assembled into a product and process that would work. 

    I'd also make voting mandatory. No more only 10% of people voting.
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