http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/ Engadget Comments for Steve Jobs: 'we tried to buy a company called AdMob' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Oh my God! He's in this to make money? ]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/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]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
I do and been saying it for years.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
Drink it up, sheep.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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.....]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
Well Steve Jobs is ''worth $5.7 billion''
http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/06/celebrity-billionaires-rich_07billionaires_cz_lk_0308celebrity.html]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
It's a company? What's the objective of ANY company? Last time I checked usually for profits. Ads are an easy cash cow]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
ADphone

hope all the iphone and ipad users like ads, your aboot to get a lot of them!]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Of course I believe Apple goes a little too far. Try anyway to get money more than any...]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
iAd, IUD, IED

I think I see a pattern.


not really. ]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Dude, wake up and smell the capitalism.]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
Applies to Google as well...why do you think they did Android in the first place, if not to run ads?]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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 :)]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
Viva la adPhone!]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
But your issue is surely around being successful. Viva la Pre-Pastitphone!]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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.]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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!]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
Stop being a complete ass.]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
If they seem like they care about you its a ruse to make more money based on their great "customer service".]]>Apr 8th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/dissent?]]>Apr 8th 2010 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/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. ]]>Apr 8th 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://bit.ly/iphone-os-4-0-impressions]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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.]]>Apr 8th 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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.]]>Apr 8th 2010 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
Sry, didnt mean to double post that but engadget froze for 5 mins and didnt know it had received my post.]]>Apr 8th 2010 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/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.

]]>Apr 9th 2010 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
Jobs ain't makin' any money from me. ;-)]]>Apr 9th 2010 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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?]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/Apr 8th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
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.]]>Apr 8th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/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.]]>Apr 8th 2010 3:07PM