iAds could make a billion dollars, help Google make their deal

I am wondering how many of these comments are coming from people who play/use Apple's apps and how many people MAKE the apps.

I am a developer for the App Store and I appreciate the positive comments. As for the negative comments, it is sad that you want indie developers to spend hundreds of hours making a free application that you love to use, but you don't want them to get paid for it. You should tell your boss that you want to work for free for 4 months because you feel it is an inconvenience for him to pay you.

The ads are already in the apps! the only difference is that they will come from a Apple server and the developer will make 60% instead of 5-10% they usually get offered. They are the same size ads, going in only the free apps and only if the developer chooses to put them in. Apple does not tell us to put them in, we decide.

Who knows what iAds will be like...they are not out yet...but they are just taking what is already on the phones (ads) and giving the money to the developers...Not so bad.

No one likes ads, but they are here...and oh ya....google is going to put their ads on your Living room TV now....which I'm not bothered about ...but you would think the complainers would complain about that more so then on a free game you downloaded.

No one is "walking all over them with ads."  That's an insane conclusion exaggerated by using fear, it's almost manipulative.  The point is that any and all ads you get now should be a better experience for the user, if the developer so chooses to use iAd.  There is no conspiracy.  Instead of an ad taking you out of the app or the ad itself being something boring, it's making it so that the content is a little more interesting and engaging IF you do click on an ad and you can get right back to the app you were in very quickly.  Nothing wrong with that.  Everything you complain about is already happening now.  Ads are annoying whether or not iAd exists. 

As for your Google example, it's completely skewed.  I use Gmail, etc and it's just fine with the ads.  But on a smartphone with a super small screen in comparison to your monitor, even a "blue strip in the inbox" is going to be big.  Look at the mobile version of Gmail and tell me what you see.  Any ads?  No.  What if there were?  How do you think a "blue strip in the inbox" is going to look?

Jordan, if your twisted views bother you that much and you can't seem to see reason, then I have the best solution possible.  Don't buy Apple products.  That's the best way to show Apple you don't support them.

I was mostly interested to see just how much is possible with HTML5. While I remain unaware of the tools available to produce content such as that shown, plus how such tools compare to those made available by Adobe for Flash, I was genuinely surprised at how good they were and wondered whether this is another nail in the coffin for Flash.

I feel there is a very simple answer to this "problem": don't "buy" the ad-funded applications. If you are suddenly expecting to be swamped in advertising in applications that you have bought then I think it is time to consider this again. I really don't see paid applications using advertising (certainly I would not buy one that uses advertisements like this) so I don't see the problem here.

Advertising? In my iphone apps? I'll believe it when i see it. Meanwhile im going to play a few of the free and lite games from the app store.

Ads are Ads.
Without out them nearly the whole of the American economy would collapse......CAUSE NO ONE WOULD KNOW OF THE PRODUCTS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE!!!

If I can get an ad-supported App/Song/Movie/TV Show for free then I'm all in. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to care.

If you got the chops, shake them.

The stockholders expect no less.

I started typing a comprehensive response, then deleted and typed this:

Don't feed the troll!!

They should rather have spend some money on makeing the appstore a place where you can actually sell stuff at decent prices so developers wouldn't have to use advertisement to make a living. But with all this race to botton pricewise that is currently going on .. no wonder people need some extra funding.
How about creating a premium store. Stricter rules, no fart apps .. but some decent content for the money. Or how about trying out apps before I buy them? I would be much more tempted to spend my money then ..

And yes .. some people seem to think, that just because it is coming from Apple that these ads are going to stink less. Well I guess we will see.

T.

"Seems like some are thinking that Apple is going to start putting iAds where no advertising currently exists."

My concern, personally. I don't know how to interpret iAd.... It sounded like all free apps would have ads... I am not particularly fond of ads in games and apps that are not news or blog content.