[idle_zealot]

Except one of those "content" apps is the only way to install software.

[yreg]

There is an obvious difference between ads in a store and ads in a start menu.

[sp332]

I don't know of any app store (where you can pay for apps) without ads.

[ffsm8]

... The app store before that change?

It's also showing ads for the cloud service in the settings app and will create notifications for apple arcade and apple music.

You're either already a customer or you'll get ads, so yeah. iOS has ads for quiet some time now.

It's just as unnecessary and annoying as Microsoft shilling for their annoying windows drive and office

[GeekyBear]

So Google's business model of having ads in the search results was problematic even before they started spying on the whole world to enable larger profits from targeted ads?