I'm not sure why this is downvoted. It's a real concern IMO. Want to use Waze on your Apple i-touch-touch windshield screen? Fair enough, but expect those "cheap gas station alert" pop-ups to persist there as well.
They don’t let you show ads on CarPlay (out for 3-4 years), why would this be any different?
Ads are the current end game for anything with access to user eyeballs. Just give it a few years, until whatever devision needs some way to squeeze a little more juice out of their revenue projections
I've never seen integrated ads on any of my Macs during normal use outside a web browser, and in iOS specifically it's always been a thing, whether built-in to the OS or a third party library. But since including, what is it called now, AdKit? I haven't seen any unusual ads in the main UI other than in the usual use-cases in apps or the web browser.
And how much of Apple's current behavior is simply a product of luxury they can afford just as long as they're in the money?
What behaviors will Apple exhibit when their demands begin to outstrip their resources? It's a very large for-profit corporation, don't be so myopic.
This is fundemental, and doing it commands high margins.
Being successful is why they have the cash pile they do and get the fat margins.
One subtle artifact in all of that is Apple does not need volume, nor has to accomodate tons of hardware variants. Being whole "stack" in this sense means being able to ask for value added everywhere possible.
I suspect ADS in a car HUD will not be welcome, and could actually see ethical challenges. Incentives are high to get a thing like this right.
I will tell you all right now, for me? NO. Not one AD. Not while driving. It is not OK, nor worth it.
Bet a cookie that sentiment is not hard to find out there.
In any case, the luxury comes from doing the work. Apple is well differentiated in this way. They have no reason to change, and billions of reasons to continue.