Jacob R Says the Ads are coming!

The ads are coming! If it’s not a subscription model, more and more app developers are resorting to ads—and it’s not just the independent shops either.  In this article, Microsoft is leveraging their ability to deliver ads to the free users of Outlook (the email service formerly known as Hotmail—the email service formerly known as RocketMail: yes, I’m that old).

What’s Mike’s take? Do you monetize every part of the app you can as a development shop? Or, are there parts you intentionally release for free?

https://apple.news/ASNG_5NIqQ_C2Ixui9sJoKQ

Is this a case, should users suck it up and deal with it? or should Microsoft bend and reduce how they monetize their customers?

Sure, we no longer pay for Windows… but it seems Microsoft doesn’t exactly have a reputation for giving the customers useful tools as part of the price they already pay. See my Surface Pro 8 review and how frustrating it was not to be able to annotate a PDF without installing the full Adobe Acrobat. https://blog.parkingthought.com/3dL7dFRxzNVGQA

Yes, I’m grumpy that the #1 desktop OS in the world doesn’t have a native PDF editor.