[daemin]

Don't worry, Apple TV will soon get ads and the experience will be much the same as the "Smart" TVs.

I'm pretty sure the smart features were put into TVs so they could become the one entertainment device just like those external set top boxes in the early 2000's. All consumer media hardware is headed in this direction of having advertisements, even in paid/subscription services. I base this on the fact that Foxtel (effectively the one and only paid TV service in Australia) has more ads per hour than free to air TV as people that pay a subscription are considered to have a higher income than ones that don't.

[sgjohnson]

> Apple TV will soon get ads and the experience will be much the same as the "Smart" TVs.

Which would completely kill the reason to buy it. I highly doubt that Apple is going to do that.

[cjbgkagh]

Adding ads to a product is one of the easiest ways to get a huge bonus. All of the revenue is attributed to you and most of the reputation is diffused throughout the company and only occurs much later.

This almost guarantees that at lesson one person is working on it, without a strong customer focused leadership it’s hard to say no to that amount of money.

[daemin]

They put in ads into iOS, why wouldn't they put in ads in Apple TV?

[sgjohnson]

They did?

[mensetmanusman]

Yes, when you accidentally tap an address and you don’t have Maps installed but you have Google Maps installed, it will entirely ignore the better maps service and force you to the Maps installation on the app store.

Maps has sent me to cornfields a few too many times to be trustworthy. It’s incredibly annoying that they refuse to let me choose google maps to open an address. Anti-trust needs to step in some day.

[amanaplanacanal]

I think they are talking about App Store. And maybe the nag in settings to “finish setting up your iPhone”