Apple wants developers to take 1/8th of your phone

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9 pointsajg19773 comments

I think they missed the point.

There are already apps in the store with banner ads. It's one choice of many for a business model for the app. The purpose of the iAd platform is to make the user experience better for applications which are ad supported.

Only free apps have ads. Paid apps don't have ads. Nothing to worry about.

Not true.

There's already nothing preventing paid apps from running ads (CNN Mobile is one example) and the iAd framework makes it even more tempting for app authors to do so.

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