Apple iOS is Adware; doesn't follow own guidelines set out for 3rd parties

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Forbes:
If you’ve not signed up for Apple Music, your iPhone’s Music app will remind you and offer options only available through the subscription. If you’ve not signed up to Apple TV+. you’re going to see lots of adverts for Apple’s own programming. Apple News users without the subscription without are going to see adverts and diversions to subscription-based articles. In many cases the alerts over these services do not follow the strict guidelines Apple hands to third party developers.
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https://stevestreza.com/2020/02/17/ios-adware/
If you don’t subscribe to these services, you’ll be forced to look at these ads constantly, either in the apps you use or the push notifications they have turned on by default. The pervasiveness of ads in iOS is a topic largely unexplored, perhaps due to these services having a lot of adoption among the early adopter crowd that tends to discuss Apple and their design. This isn’t a value call on the services themselves, but a look at how aggressively Apple pushes you to pay for them, and how that growth-hack-style design comes at the expense of the user experience.
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I get absolutely zero ads on my iPhones. Never, ever have. The closest is Apple Pay on a new setup. Just decline it. If it pops up again, just go in and decline it and you'll never hear back. But I also have no social media either.
 
Markverhyden said:
I get absolutely zero ads on my iPhones. Never, ever have. The closest is Apple Pay on a new setup. Just decline it. If it pops up again, just go in and decline it and you'll never hear back. But I also have no social media either.
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also no adware on my iPhone, I’ve never had anything on any of my iPhones or androids when I had them
 
Barcelona said:
I have no social media either. Thats exactly how i like it too.
I can live quite well without the negative, racial, political, nonsensical advertising and clickbait garbage that churns out of social media on a daily basis. :D
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Make this a third for the "has no social media, wants none either," unless you count having created a Facebook business page for my business pretty much as a place holder.

I'd actually imagine that a very great many of us "who live in the tech world" would assiduously avoid social media, and its being a time pit being one of the biggest reasons.

I have way more than enough cyber-stuff (and this forum is one part of that) on my plate without ever even considering social media for one second. The fact that virtually any exposure I've had to social media shows it to be either a vapid wasteland or frequented by the crazy only makes my conviction to avoid it all the stronger.
 
britechguy said:
I have way more than enough cyber-stuff (and this forum is one part of that) on my plate without ever even considering social media for one second. The fact that virtually any exposure I've had to social media shows it to be either a vapid wasteland or frequented by the crazy only makes my conviction to avoid it all the stronger.
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So, apart from that, it's alright???
 
phaZed said:
Sorry, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
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don't I? how many top of the line android phones (except google pixel or nexus line) do you know that have more than 2 major android os updates? meaning going from android 6.xx to 7.xx and then 8.xx and then they receive the official 9.xx? the Samsung models receive the android os only a good 5/6 months after the google official release, but for example S8 won't update to android 10 correct? the last one is 9.xx?
 
Well, I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro, and my partner a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Plus. MIUI is their "spin" on Android, so the version numbers don't align. Neither of these devices is anything near to flagship, and they've gone from MIUI 8 or 9, through 10, and to 11. MIUI 11 is based on Android 9.0. There is a possibility of going one more version of MIUI.

It is quite unusual these days for any major maker (whether they're major in the USA or not) to not support several Android version updates for their devices that are anywhere from low mid-range up through their flagship models. It's not much different than iPhones, which certainly don't do much more than that in terms of upgrades to iOS.

And given the price differential between Apple iPhones and Android models that match them, you can get yourself multiple flagship models if you wait a short while after initial release or even more high-end-but-below-flagship models. I know of very, very few people who have ever come close to exploiting the computing power in any modern mid-range or higher smartphone. Most people come nowhere near to exploiting the computing power of base models. Most of what most people do on smartphones is not processor intensive by any definition.
 
Your PCMD said:
Gawk :eek: How do you even live my friend :D
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Some neighbors were talking about having me committed. LOL!!!

overburnz said:
android phones are already slow from the start with all the crapload of sh*t that comes pre installed with them and they only allow 1 or 2 is upgrades (the top of the top not the cheaper ones), so yeah....
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My experience with them is a sample size of 1. In a massive brain cramp one morning I left for the day leaving both my iPhones at home. So I bought a T-Mobile Simple Mobile disposable. $25 plus a one month plan for $25. While I didn't notice it being that slow I did get tons of popups to sign up for all of Google's spyware, I mean services. An unexpected surprise is I a got a vanity style number! So I'll keep it.
 
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