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Every time I search on my wife's iPhone for some specific application in the App Store the first result is an add for a competitor's app. How is that 'expected'?


I use my desktop and perform searches every day. I am constantly nagged with targeted ads and bulk promotions when doing so on Windows and when using Google.

I search for apps in the App Store once every few months. Perhaps others do it once or twice a week if they like exploring and trying new apps.

Does that not seem qualitatively different to you? Even if Apple makes some revenue as a result of advertising inside their fully segregated marketplaces, it's hard to think that those ads are a big part of one's experience with Apple.


How is that not expected, let alone “spying” in anything like the way FB or Google do?

I don’t like ads in general, but “you searched for a competing product, please consider mine” is so old school and understandable.




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