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by 0x09 3549 days ago
> I'm certain you will never see ads in MacOS as part of the OS "features."

How certain?

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

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Uh oh... Please please let this be a defensive patent to use against other OSes which include ads, and not an indication of a future macOS/iOS to come..

This MAY make sense in tvOS, to present ads during a "channel" app while "disabling certain operating system features", but I really hope Apple of all companies aren't that greedy for extra revenue to include ads in macOS/iOS..

The patent filing is also dated 2008, and nothing's happened so far.