I'll be frank: the whole thing reads like bullshit.
The author is imploring you to ignore you personal experience with the platform to accept his interpretation which is purposely devoid of context.
Advertising falls into many categories some of these are useful, some of these are annoying. Useful advertising is a feature. If I search for boots on Google and get an ad for a nearby boot store - that's useful, informative advertising - the fact that payment was made for this to happen is irrelevant: I'm still able to choose something else.
If I visit a store and there are seasonal decorations, again that's useful, informative/educational advertising. It doesn't force me to buy a turkey or a tree.
However if I switch on my phone to find Facebook is preinstalled and difficult or impossible to remove(Samsung devices) - then that is invasive and unwanted advertising. It takes something away from me: storage space, my time, my attention, my patience, my choice.
Apple's advertising aligns with providing services that are useful for whatever the user is doing. In a music app: here's a way to get more music, before Apple Music it was the iTunes store.
In the news app? it's premium magazine/news services. In your storage settings, it's cloud storage. Like the boots example, it's irrelevant that these are pay for services, these are merely shortcuts to getting more of what you already want in an app which still functions without payment. (There are also plenty of example where such extensions are entirely free, such as additional desktop backgrounds.)
That's not adware. A good example of adware is packaging a bunch of games into your OS that have no function unless purchased (Windows), adware is including predatory credit providers inside a web browser (Edge).
The author is imploring you to ignore you personal experience with the platform to accept his interpretation which is purposely devoid of context.
Advertising falls into many categories some of these are useful, some of these are annoying. Useful advertising is a feature. If I search for boots on Google and get an ad for a nearby boot store - that's useful, informative advertising - the fact that payment was made for this to happen is irrelevant: I'm still able to choose something else.
If I visit a store and there are seasonal decorations, again that's useful, informative/educational advertising. It doesn't force me to buy a turkey or a tree.
However if I switch on my phone to find Facebook is preinstalled and difficult or impossible to remove(Samsung devices) - then that is invasive and unwanted advertising. It takes something away from me: storage space, my time, my attention, my patience, my choice.
Apple's advertising aligns with providing services that are useful for whatever the user is doing. In a music app: here's a way to get more music, before Apple Music it was the iTunes store. In the news app? it's premium magazine/news services. In your storage settings, it's cloud storage. Like the boots example, it's irrelevant that these are pay for services, these are merely shortcuts to getting more of what you already want in an app which still functions without payment. (There are also plenty of example where such extensions are entirely free, such as additional desktop backgrounds.)
That's not adware. A good example of adware is packaging a bunch of games into your OS that have no function unless purchased (Windows), adware is including predatory credit providers inside a web browser (Edge).