New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads

Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by dylan604 on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:39PM (#23872410)

>But being the most popular mobile ecosystem

I keep seeing quote similar to this about Apple's iOS being so popular, yet the numbers clearly show that Android devices/users out number iOS. Are they saying that even with those numbers, Android is unpopular and people would rather be an iOS user? Is the price point whats preventing them?

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by m12k on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:50PM (#23872555)

Yeah, calling it the most popular requires defining popular in a rather unconventional manner... That said, as a data point, a handful of years ago I saw a report that the average iOS user generally had a quite a bit more purchasing power than the average Android user, so despite making up quite a bit less than 50% of the mobile market, iOS users actually come closer to making up 50% of the market that most advertisers care about reaching. I don't know if this is outdated these days, with more high-end Android phones than in the early days, but it still fits my anecdotal experience of Android phones being given to children as their first phone, and cheap Android phones being very popular in developing countries.

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by scarface74 on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:48PM (#23875353)

There is a reason that Google pays Apple 8 Billion+ a year to be the default search engine....

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by stmL on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:29PM (#23873088)

I believe so. In my country, having an iPhone was a sign of higher income. An average Android phone with a known brand is about 1K local currency, iPhone SE is around 5K and iPhone 11 Pro is around 11K. Average junior developer earns around 5K monthly. Nowadays, even people that can't afford proper food buy them second hand or with installments.

I, as an Android user, keep reading stories about how iPhone respects privacy and how it is more stable etc. Even though there is no add-on support for Firefox on iOS (for uBlock origin) and I know I won't be able to develop any app for my own iPhone (MacBooks are even more expensive around 20K) I still want to buy an iPhone to get rid of Google and its compulsory apps. I know if I care enough about my privacy I can get LineageOS or something, I just want something that works and not owned by Google.

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by lern_too_spel on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:18PM (#23875684)

If you get an iPhone, you will get Apple's compulsory apps. The difference is that on Android, you can replace Google's apps with other apps.

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by dylan604 on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:26PM (#23878400)

don't you just exchange that with apps your carrier forces on you?

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by lern_too_spel on Saturday July 18, 2020 @11:16AM (#23881935)

You can replace those with apps that you like as well. Android doesn't care who installed the default apps.

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by dingaling on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:38AM (#23881319)

Not if you buy the phone from a retailer.

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by dylan604 on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:36PM (#23873180)

I guarantee you're better off not spending 20K on a MacBook. These lastest generations are total crap. I've been a MacBook owner/user since 1997 (before they were called MacBook). I never thought I would say that, but the buttefly keyboard debacle has lowered my opinion of Apple hardware to the point I'd consider a non-Apple device for the next one.

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