Sorry if the implication wasn't obvious. Once they sell B2C services it's just a matter of time before that too becomes ad supported, then your data (or at least eye balls) are for sale.
Ad serving is a (very) low-margin business, and only profitable with huge impression counts. Apple services (think iCloud storage plans) are high margin, with comparatively few opportunities to serve ads. There would be zero point to injecting ads into service contexts (as opposed to something like App Store views).
Do you have some examples of services going from fee-for-service to fee-and-ads-for-service? I am coming up blank. The closest that I can think of are areas that had been as based but then added fees as well, such as TV.
Good point! And I guess that also brings in all the gunk that I hear gets installed on Windows from a lot of systems integrators. Which, funnily enough, has been one of the clear market differentiators for Apple.
That just doesn't follow. You're making multiple leaps. First that Apple is going to add or switch to ad support for their services. The second is those ads will be as invasive as Facebook ads.
Fair point, yet you pay a premium for Apple hardware and get ads for Apple services constantly. ICloud red dot until you sign up/in, media play/pause always defaults to opening Apple Music, nags to use Safari, etc
