Steve Jobs: 'we tried to buy a company called AdMob'
By Chris Ziegler 
posted April 8th 2010 2:41PM
posted April 8th 2010 2:41PM
posted April 8th 2010 2:41PM
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Does anyone else think the Jobs is a total money hungry jerk? =/
@AcE17
Oh my God! He's in this to make money?
@AcE17 yup! I do!
You're talking one of the biggest corporate companies in the us, if not the world. Isn't it obvious? Lol
@AcE17
Q: Are you concerned about leaving out your older customer base (with the lack of features for older devices). A: (Steve) Well, a lot of these products that are out there are the most recent products. The old devices will get the update, but they'll miss some of these features like multitasking. If that's an incentive for them to upgrade to a new device... terrific.
YEP
@AcE17
I do and been saying it for years.
iADs: "Because we don't have ENOUGH money."
Drink it up, sheep.
@AcE17 Yep. If he wasn't, he wouldn't put stupid ass proprietary ports on his devices.
@AcE17 Nope... Not at all. He is in the business of making money. Why expect anything less. Use some common sense please. GG NO RE
@AcE17
I know thats what a company does.... but hes not even shy about saying it... and the way he answers some questions too... its like he thinks hes god.....
@AcE17
Well Steve Jobs is ''worth $5.7 billion''
http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/06/celebrity-billionaires-rich_07billionaires_cz_lk_0308celebrity.html
@AcE17 love that comment.....go look up SJ's net worth and then go look up Bill Gates net worth.....but gates is the nice guy......riiiiiiiiight.
someone explain to me how android being littered with ads isn't so bad, but apple just announces ads and steve jobs is the devil......most biased posters on all the interwebs....thank god engadget doesn't pander to you idiots.
@Mister Warmth
It's a company? What's the objective of ANY company? Last time I checked usually for profits. Ads are an easy cash cow
@JMUHOBO
ADphone
hope all the iphone and ipad users like ads, your aboot to get a lot of them!
@AcE17 Well every company needs to do what it takes to get money.
Of course I believe Apple goes a little too far. Try anyway to get money more than any...
@ummmwhat more like look up how many BILLIONS Gates has given to worldwide charities and fighting AIDS, and then look up Jobs, who only (looks) like he has AIDS.
@AcE17
iAd, IUD, IED
I think I see a pattern.
not really.
@grapeDrank LOL!!!!!!!!
@AcE17 'Cause Steve Ballmer and Eric Schmidt just care about that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you buy one of their products, right?
Dude, wake up and smell the capitalism.
@Mister Warmth
Applies to Google as well...why do you think they did Android in the first place, if not to run ads?
@AcE17
You mean you don't like his arrogance? But that is true for Bill Gates and Larry Ellison and many others as well. Why single out Steve Jobs? You gotta have a lot of self confidence to do what he does...without Steve, Apple is just another hardware company. Face it, he IS their chief product visionary.
I bet you and a LOT of others like you expected the ipad to be a failure at launch. yet it's sold 450K plus....
I bet you think the Apple TV is a failure, yet it has sold almost 8M or so. That puts Apple TV sales slightly above or around the Amazon Kindle level. The problem is that Apple is held to a really high standard. If Apple had released the Nexus One it would have been their biggest flop ever in terms of sales, yet it is considered a huge hit for Google and HTC.
Apple is at a different level and Steve Jobs is a big reason for that...10 years ago he took an almost bankrupt company is is today worth more than HP + Dell + Lenovo + Acer + Sony COMBINED!!!!!!! In market value. In fact Apple's current market value is greater than Dell + Google combined....yeah. I bet he's pretty impressed with what he has done. I would be too :)
I don't care about Google I have a Palm Pre. No ads. The point being missed is that Apple has always touted their phone as above everything else - the be-all, end-all. And everyone followed, right into an ambush.
Viva la adPhone!
@Mister Warmth
But your issue is surely around being successful. Viva la Pre-Pastitphone!
@AcE17 Engadget is filled with some of the most ignorant and biased tech snobs on the entire Internet.
Go take a look at Jobs' salary at Apple. It's $1.00/year. The majority of his 5 billion net worth was made from when Disney bought pixar from him, he got about 4 billion or something out of the deal in Disney stocks etc.
@Mister Warmth
That reminds me, since Palm took the high and mighty stance, how has it affected their position? Palm is like a turd that wont flush...any day now though it might just go for good!
@Mister Warmth Good effin god what a thing to say. The man almost died and had a liver transplant. Of course he's thin.
Stop being a complete ass.
@Mister Warmth as we all know Google (the biggest web advertising company on earth) is just tracking everything that goes through their server so they can make money for all of us.
Steve jobs didn't turn apple around, bill gates did when microsoft gave apple millions to stay in busness
@AcE17 Newsflash: All companies are in the game to make money, they don't care about you.
If they seem like they care about you its a ruse to make more money based on their great "customer service".
@cherryboom
dissent?
@ummmwhat Actually I'm pretty sure that Bill's net worth isn't that high anymore since you have to subtract out the money that's held only for charity purposes by his trusts. They're obligations so they should count against his net worth. He's still quite well off but if you want to get technical about it I'm not really sure that his net worth is higher than Jobs' at this point.
That said since it was his money to begin with and he donated it most people still count it as part of his net worth but technically if he's already written off binding legal documents for the money it's not really "his" anymore.
@macmann As for the iPhone OS 4.0, seeing the iAd perform was great. "Interactive + Emotion" The only problem I see here, is it looks like those ads need fast procs / memory, also.. According to the presentation there are some ads that goes inside an APP -- Hopefully, users won't be too annoyed with that. Reactions-- http://bit.ly/iphone-os-4-0-impressions
@ummmwhat
Bill Gates is funding the fight against malaria and aids. And not with pennies but billins of dollars.
I didn't, and still don't like microsoft but the way Bil Gates is using his money puts him a level, or several leves above Steve Jobs in my opinion. They are both moneygrabbing corporate CEOs but at least with Gates some of the money will end up bettering the world, instead of pretending to better the wrld.
@ummmwhat
Bill Gates is funding the fight against malaria and aids. And not with pennies but billins of dollars.
I didn't, and still don't like microsoft but the way Bil Gates is using his money puts him a level, or several leves above Steve Jobs in my opinion. They are both moneygrabbing corporate CEOs but at least with Gates some of the money will end up bettering the world, instead of pretending to better the wrld.
@newone
Sry, didnt mean to double post that but engadget froze for 5 mins and didnt know it had received my post.
@macmann it's STEVE MOBS!
@gmac
Apple is big if you measure market cap, but in 2009 Fortune 500 ranking the where ranked 71 of 500. Dell took 33 place and Microsoft 35 and IBM 14 largest.
@AcE17
Jobs ain't makin' any money from me. ;-)
Looks like Apple wants to control what Ads you see now too.
@grapeDrank I can't believe nobody asked Steve the obvious question:
If I develop an ad-supported iPhone/iPad app, am I still allowed to do it without iAd and keep 100% of my revenue?
Or is this basically a mandatory tax on ads now?
@metaesapuet more like get a 40% cut in Ad profits. I'd like to see the gain/loss to the devs that choose the iAd model vs. the old Ad model, that make their apps free.
@Realityism Apple will share 60% with the dev
@josher Uhhh... Thanks? (I know Apple takes 40% for iAd; that was the premise of my question. If I didn't know that, why the hell would I be asking if you can still roll your own ads and skip the iAd Tax?)
Google still will do it better
@MiddleWay How?
@Vincent Ads on Google are peripheral. It appears as though these ads will fill the entire screen and require a click to remove them. Should we start calling this the adPhone?
@grapeDrank I thought these were for free apps?
@grapeDrank YES! you are right sir. We deal with ads from Google because we get great products like Gmail, Maps with FREE turn-by-turn, Google Voice, Google Wave, etc etc etc. What does Apple have? Oh yeah they have MobileMe and it will only cost you $99/year to do what Google does for free! This is why Google will always be number one in advertising.
@grapeDrank
I think Steve Jobs is the smartest CEO if he can sell apps that have advertising inside. Apple fans will still praise Steve for selling them advertising.
@jakeZ
Obviously you didn't see the ads --- they appear at the bottom part of the app you're using, using less than what appears to be an 1/8 of the screen, then go away if you don't click on them. The larger ads you talk trash about is when you CLICK on the original add, somewhat similar to the all the other ones you seem to cherish.