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361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Should Ads Be Allowed on the App Store Period?

Apple's app store is more of a direct reflection of their brand than apple news or stocks especially because starting a few years ago apple itself they started putting their apps on the app store. The fact that again there's plenty of screenshots people were seeing ads for casinos and hook up apps when searching for books for the apple books app just feels cheap, says John Defterios. "I can't help but wonder if maybe this is the precursor to a different kind of app store which has been talked about before"

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