1 mindblowing fact google doesn't want you to know about before you get ios9

mid_gen said:
I was wondering what Apple was going to do to combat the threat of web apps eroding their business model. Here's their solution! Cut off the revenue stream to web platforms.
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I was thinking the other day how weird it is that desktops moved away from apps with html5/java/flash, but mobile devices moved towards apps. On mobile you need a weather/facebook/email/etc apps, but on desktops you can get by with basically nothing installed now. Even to use a calculator you can just type it in to google for an answer.

I wonder if desktops will move back to apps, or mobile will move to websites. You're saying the latter is true?

Personally I don't like messing about with apps I just use a website, I don't even like mobile versions I use the desktop versions on my phone.
 
Skeeter said:
Looks at ad in top right corner...

:rolleyes:
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How much does this platform cost to run? vbulletin license plus £10 a month hosting? It's an extension of a shop, the online equivalent of having some couches and a coffee machine for customers in a shop. Pretty sure the mods dont get paid. The posters don't get paid. If you weren't posting here you'd be posting on another forum.
 
Tacitus said:
When I read the title of this thread my immediate thoughts were of those advertised articles that are like "One secret for white teeth the dentists don't want you to know!". Paradoxically, the thread was about the end of such adverts.

Just sayin'
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A lot of sites that were started for fun, a lot of car forums for example, as soon as they get a bit popular "network" companies will offer to buy them or monetize them. Then they get plastered with ads. Same with youtube channels and even single viral videos. I can't think of any site that is run for pure fun any more except perhaps Maddox, although he sells books.

The web is completely commoditized now.
 
Osprey said:
It's really very simple, 99% of websites exist to make money. If those websites can't make money, they won't stick around. It is ludicrous to suggest nothing will change and that companies will just create content for free... you would have to be very stupid to believe such nonsense.
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Why do people contribute to linux and other open source free software then? In the old days many websites were run for fun, and hosted as a favour at universities or businesses (without ads). Although yes it would be hard to run todays youtube like that. But how much of youtube is pure clickbait dross. Some robot voice going over car specs and stuff like that?
 
What percent of youtube/google/twitter is pure junk? I would say that useful, honest, original content is maybe 10% of the internet. The rest is varying degrees of plagiarized content, clickbait, spam, link farms, seo rubbish, bots, junk videos, junk tweets, apps nobody would ever buy, etc. all funded by ads.

And the 10% is getting worse and worse as it has to compete with dumbed down clickbait.

500,000 views for some scraped images which dont even match the title on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDl10R2zsrc
 
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