<story><title>Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy</title><url>https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2Gkashmiri</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t own an apple device now but why does app store have ads ? After paying upwards of $1000+ on a iPhone, why can&amp;#x27;t you expect an ad free experience on a first party app store?</text></item><item><author>kaba0</author><text>Also, not all ads are the same from an ethical standpoint.&lt;p&gt;Displaying an app ad in the appstore upon searching for a similar term is very different than displaying ads based on your whole life, collected in malicious ways.</text></item><item><author>innagadadavida</author><text>&amp;gt; In 2022, Apple generated 4.7 billion U.S. dollars with its global advertising business.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; By 2022, Facebook&amp;#x27;s ad revenues had hit $135.94 billion.&lt;p&gt;$4.7B is not a small number but no where close to Facebook’s.</text></item><item><author>nicce</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s ad business, however, is growing all the time. And in significant margins.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;1330127&amp;#x2F;apple-ad-revenue-worldwide&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;1330127&amp;#x2F;apple-ad-revenue...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>goalieca</author><text>Apple does not have a tracking pixel on half the popular web. Apple&amp;#x27;s main source of income is through luxury hardware and subscription services. Facebook sells your information and attention to willing buyers.</text></item><item><author>daft_pink</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric on their product and passively allowing a very popular app in their app store.&lt;p&gt;Not a huge fan of Apple, but they aren&amp;#x27;t Facebook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LexGray</author><text>Perhaps there is some sort of pressure by stockholders to have the ability to promote their own products and services on the device or just some sort of backroom dealings.&lt;p&gt;My personal hope is that Apple course corrects at some point that they do not need to extract the extra cash while damaging the customer experience. The company feels much less customer oriented now and has lost a lot of the premium feel. I have already stopped using their TV app because they have made it nearly non-functional with the amount of promoted content. The News app has an exceptional number of subscription only items in the feed to where I am about to go back to pure RSS. The feeling is like what Google would have done with Google Reader if it was still going stuffing in promotions.&lt;p&gt;I agree first party apps should be advertisement free if they are advertised as being included in the price of the phone. Otherwise it is a hidden bill you are paying with hours or days of your life that you can&amp;#x27;t get back.&lt;p&gt;I would pay for a service that just disabled all first party promotions advertisements. Give me the real price instead of wasting my valuable time with advertisements I would never click.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy</title><url>https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2Gkashmiri</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t own an apple device now but why does app store have ads ? After paying upwards of $1000+ on a iPhone, why can&amp;#x27;t you expect an ad free experience on a first party app store?</text></item><item><author>kaba0</author><text>Also, not all ads are the same from an ethical standpoint.&lt;p&gt;Displaying an app ad in the appstore upon searching for a similar term is very different than displaying ads based on your whole life, collected in malicious ways.</text></item><item><author>innagadadavida</author><text>&amp;gt; In 2022, Apple generated 4.7 billion U.S. dollars with its global advertising business.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; By 2022, Facebook&amp;#x27;s ad revenues had hit $135.94 billion.&lt;p&gt;$4.7B is not a small number but no where close to Facebook’s.</text></item><item><author>nicce</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s ad business, however, is growing all the time. And in significant margins.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;1330127&amp;#x2F;apple-ad-revenue-worldwide&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.statista.com&amp;#x2F;statistics&amp;#x2F;1330127&amp;#x2F;apple-ad-revenue...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>goalieca</author><text>Apple does not have a tracking pixel on half the popular web. Apple&amp;#x27;s main source of income is through luxury hardware and subscription services. Facebook sells your information and attention to willing buyers.</text></item><item><author>daft_pink</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric on their product and passively allowing a very popular app in their app store.&lt;p&gt;Not a huge fan of Apple, but they aren&amp;#x27;t Facebook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csallen</author><text>Because Apple has decided so, because it makes them lots of money, and it isn&amp;#x27;t a big enough dealbreaker for consumers to not buy iPhones. I believe the Google Play Store has ads, too.</text></comment>