Steve Jobs once considered an ad-supported version of Mac OS 9. Users would see a 60-second Apple-updated commercial during boot, as well as several other ads throughout the system. This all was tied to selling operating system updates - "this is how Microsoft does it... It's like printing money", Jobs said. While the idea was financially sound, Apple decided against it because too many negatives arose.
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And whose fault is that? People that are either too lazy or too...well stupid, to even bother to read what a program says, in clear text with checkboxes no less, before they install software onto their system that could be doing anything! Frankly I'm shocked more programmers haven't stuck jokes in the EULAs, like "We get the right to name your first born children and drink all your beer" just because they know nobody even bothers to read or check anything anymore!
BTW if you have friends and or relatives like this? you might want to know of a place called http://ninite.com/ which will install most of the software your average user wants/needs with NO TOOLBARS and in fact no questions, just check the boxes of what you want and run it.
As for TFA you have to remember the era, we are talking OS9, an OS that was woefully behind the times and was basically shoved out the doors to buy them time to get OSX complete. Thanks to the Pepsi guy betting the farm on the lawsuit, followed by the next CEOs letting Pink/Copeland/Taligent get so bloated and messed up the only solution was to buy another OS? Well you can see why anything that would bring more revenue might have been entertained.
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2005-07-06
"Ads in OS" is sort of here, also in an Apple OS (isn't that what iAd is about? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd ...even if intrudes less - not when you just interact with the OS)