Your iPhone May No Longer Be Ad Free

While it may be hard to imagine, you may actually have to suffer through commercials in the very near future when using certain apps on the iPhone. It is tough to gauge how well this one is going to go over with users, but what choice do they really have? AdMob, a mobile phone advertising company, is set to launch advertising that will appear in certain applications that are featured in the App store.

iPhone 3G

This is kind of a unique approach to advertising, but do iPhone users really want to have to watch or listen to an ad once they have opened up an application that they have already paid for? While the app will have a fast forward feature that will allow the user the ability to end the ad and move onto the application, it seems like it would be more of an annoyance than anything else.

Of course, Google is in on the action as they have recently announced that they will be acquiring AdMob with an offer of about $750,000,000 in stock. The curious thing here is that this app may directly affect the sales of iPhone applications and Google is in cahoots with other developers that are selling their phones that feature Google as a primary driving force.

The first phone that comes to mind is of course the Droid. The free GPS app that is on the phone is powered by Google maps and is one of the features that is being touted over the iPhone’s features. In order to get something comparable, the iPhone user would have to purchase the TomTom feature (which has recently been upgraded to compete with the Google Maps GPS) for $99. Is anyone questioning this or are we just thinking conspiracy theory on our own here?

Posted on Nov 18th, 2009 by Andrew Wells in iPhone News | 6 Comments

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6 Comments to “Your iPhone May No Longer Be Ad Free”

  1. on 19 Nov 2009 at 12:03 am1Ram

    Do not compare iPhone’s TomTom app with Droid’s Google Maps navigation tool. IPhone’s TomTom doesn’t need internet to use (All purchased maps are inbuilt), but every time you use Google maps you will get charged by your service provider.

  2. on 19 Nov 2009 at 3:38 am2ezmac

    NOOOOOO!!!!!

  3. on 19 Nov 2009 at 7:48 pm3BillyW

    If this happens, that App won’t stay on my iphone for long at all. If I get an app that is free, then I can understand being bombarded with ads. But if I pay for an app and it wants to lay commercials, then it will be deleted. Guess this will be a new location on the forums for listing apps with commercials.
    This is a bad idea…

  4. on 24 Nov 2009 at 4:34 pm4Iphone App Developer

    It makes sense for ads to appear on the iPhone, and is to be expected especially as more people get iPhones as more companies get the rights (in the UK anyway). Its most likely the future of advertising.

  5. on 24 Nov 2009 at 4:41 pm5Iphone App Developer

    and also you’ll come to ignore them just as you do with Google ads.

  6. on 28 Nov 2009 at 10:13 pm6kbnguy

    @Ram
    “…but every time you use Google maps you will get charged by your service provider.”
    open mouth insert shoes…

    Google map doesn’t charge pay per use. It uses data from data package which every smart phone (iphone, droid, winmo…) require to have.

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