http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/ Engadget Comments for 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/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/I see free apps, like broadcast tv. It's free to me because advertisers are paying for the show.]]>May 21st 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://j.mp/admob-next-adsense-mobile
]]>May 21st 2010 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/Yeah, ads suck, but without them there would be pay only sites on the internets.]]>May 21st 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
I'd rather have free sites, free Gmail, free Google Maps, free Youtube, free Hulu, and so on.]]>May 21st 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
So you are pro spam? nice...]]>May 21st 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
No you wouldn't. Do you think blogging would exist (eg. the massive wave of online weblogs, which ultimately spawned this very site) without ads? No. Would you pay to use Google? Of course not.

Ads aren't just nifty and cool, they're NEEDED to keep certain things not just profitable, but viable for consideration.]]>May 21st 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
Pro spam? Whaaat are you talking about?]]>May 21st 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/Who are you to say what I would and wouldn't use, or what I would pay for and wouldn't pay for?

Of course these things would be there, there are plenty of websites that have absolutely no ads at all on the web and do fine.

Besides, there are the more subtle forms of Ads, kinda like Engadget, an ad agency for hire.]]>May 21st 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
You people actually believe that advertising makes stuff free? Wow, that is naive. Money does not come out of thin air, you know.

Sites and services which are funded by advertising get their money from you, in the form of a higher price on nearly every product you buy. They are not free, in any way or form. You have paid for them. Whether you end up using the sites and services or not.

Just imagine if, instead of paying a bit of the price of EVERY advertising-supported service (whether you use that service or not, and there is not enough time in the day to use them all!), we individually only paid a bit of the price of the services we actually want to use.

We would each save a lot of money, and even more beneficially, only those services that were good enough to maintain consumer loyalty would continue; as it is now, so long as *advertisers* want a service to continue, then us consumers will continue to pay for it, regardless of what us consumers think of that service or indeed whether we use it at all.]]>May 24th 2010 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
Yay?]]>May 21st 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/With all the news Google announced yesterday, plus this, Steve must be going batshit crazy.]]>May 21st 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
From: Steve Jobs

No.
Sent from my iPhone.]]>May 21st 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
I think because they you cool and probably soon free phones?]]>May 21st 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/Funny how if Apple stayed out of it, Google likely wouldn't have successful acquired AdMob.

Consumers are understandably not excited about ads (who wants more ads? I noticed on yesterday's keynote on Android, the ad portion seemed to be the portion with the least applause and enthusiasm). But I suppose it opens up more revenue opportunities for developers, which is something Android desperately needs (given a bulk of Android apps are free).]]>May 21st 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
It surpises me that people think google and apple are at war. it's strategic ]]>May 21st 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
Did you listen to Google's second day keynote...

They may not be at war, but they definitely are targeting each other.]]>May 21st 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
Ads for Google AND Apple mean developers can create ad-funded apps while making the host company money. There is zero difference between them.]]>May 21st 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
The potential is there for them to be more than "zero difference" between them as Apple currently holds a patent to shut down your OS during sponsored ad appearances. ]]>May 22nd 2010 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
I hope its Apple (of course).]]>May 21st 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
or a jar of applesauce]]>May 21st 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
And we all win in the end. It makes things nicer and more interactive. Ads will be there anyway, might as well bake in Fandango functionality or a game while they're at it.]]>May 21st 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
ProTip: Don't buy the phone/app if you don't agree with it. Thats what I plan on doing.

Typically the consumer market has this magically ability to make things go away that people don't buy.]]>May 21st 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/May 21st 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/ftc-approves-googles-admob-buy-cites-apples-iad-competition/
However i see the HD2 hardware platform as one with a few years of life in it, depending on what people eventually can hack onto it.]]>May 21st 2010 4:04PM