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Apple Links Directly To Web in Full-Screen TV App Ad, Ignoring Rules for Other Developers (daringfireball.net) 35

Posted by msmash from the we're-not-all-the-same dept.
Apple displayed a full-screen ad for "F1 The Movie" in its TV app that linked directly to a web browser for ticket purchases without showing warning screens that the company requires other developers to include when directing users outside their apps.

The "Buy Tickets" button sent users to the F1 movie website in their default browser without confirmation dialogs or interstitial warnings. Apple mandates that third-party developers show scare sheets when linking out of apps to sell digital content, but considers movie tickets a "real-world experience" exempt from its In-App Purchase system.

Further reading: iPhone Customers Upset By Apple Wallet Ad Pushing F1 Movie.
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  • We're effing you (Score:3)

    by Big Hairy Gorilla ( 9839972 ) on Monday July 07, 2025 @03:17PM (#65503512)
    And you're going to love it!

    You asked for it when you bought Apple. Yes. You did.

  • That this is a really shitty movie

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by kenh ( 9056 )

      It was actually a pretty good movie - The story is kinda stupid (it is a racing movie), but there's lots of action, the cast is good, and it's worth seeing in a big screen/IMAX theater (IMHO).

      I saw it early (a "sneak peek") and the audience was easily half-female, and it was, to my eyes, more groups of girlfriends than young couples in the audience.

    • I'm a big F1 fan. I expect the movie to be typical Hollywood though, so I'll wait for it to come out on the Pirate Bay.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Sebby ( 238625 )

      That this is a really shitty movie

      When something is over-hyped commercially (as in the overabundance of ads for it), it's an immediate turn off for me - and this is no different.

      I remember when Fight Club came out, it was so over-hyped I didn't even want to see if for years, because I thought it was only hyped because it was crap. Yes I was proven wrong, and think it's a great movie, but that didn't take away from the fact it was over-hyped.

      Contrast that to, say, 6th Sense (same timeframe), for which word-of-mouth was somewhat insane, but j

      • I think with Fight Club the advertising blew it. I don't remember the trailers, but I had the distinct impression that it was really just about the fight club. Those that would have been interested in the story likely passed on it, and those expecting 90 minutes of underground fighting were likely disappointed.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Sebby ( 238625 )

          I think with Fight Club the advertising blew it. I don't remember the trailers, but I had the distinct impression that it was really just about the fight club.

          Yeah, that was basically it for me - that it was just about 2 guys and some underground "fight club" they formed - of course the title doesn't actually describe the story line, or do it justice.

    • It was actually pretty good.

      It just needed some subtitles so you could tell what anyone other than Brad Pitt was saying.

  • Apple has been promoting this movie so hard on Apple TV+ for the past couple of months that, despite liking the cast and the racing milieu, I don't even want to see it now.

    One of the things I really enjoyed (past tense) about Apple TV+ was the lack of advertisements and pushy marketing. This F1 movie thing has broken trust.
  • That I was getting the "apple is awesome, and would never, ever stoop to the level of un-awesome companies that aren't apple" speech.

    Oh wait, it was last week

  • Ignored rules by not ignoring rules? (Score:3)

    by EvilSS ( 557649 ) on Monday July 07, 2025 @03:37PM (#65503566)

    but considers movie tickets a "real-world experience" exempt from its In-App Purchase system.

    So they didn't actually break their own rules? Not that it matters since it is their platform and they get to make the rules.

    Also, it's not the only app that does this. Justwatch doesn't seem to need warnings to link you out to the web to buy digitial films from various vendors. Rotten Tomatoes app (yea they do have one, it's awful) also does not seem to require them for linking you out via the web to buy tickets to films currently in theaters. The very same thing Apple did here. So, WTF is the complaint here exactly?

    • I'd love to understand where does the love for a company comes from for people like you. Like you start defending them even before getting the fact. - They did break their own rules, just not the rule regarding in-app purchase, but the rule regarding links to external websites. - It does matter, even if it is their platform. There are reasons to fight against monopolies and monopsonies, and somehow apple is both things at the same time, so it cannot simply make any rule it wants. Also, it would be nice to
      • As grandparent post says, they get to make the rules, and also, he's implying they get to break them too.. not saying I agree with that.
        But, as soon as you get to "security reasons", I think all bets are off.
        Meaning: do they break their own rules around "security" or "privacy" ?? ... exactly where does the breaking of rules begin and end....
        and the answer to that is usually "we can't tell you that.... for either security or privacy reasons!"
        You really don't know how hard they are pushing on the scale... als

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by EvilSS ( 557649 )

        I'd love to understand where does the love for a company comes from for people like you.

        I don't give a shit about Apple, but I give a shit about sensationalizing misinformation.

        - They did break their own rules, just not the rule regarding in-app purchase, but the rule regarding links to external websites.

        No, they did not. I gave two examples of other apps, available in the app store today, that link to external websites to make theater ticket and digital movie purchases that do not trigger any warnings to the user. So tell me again how they broke their own rule?

        Like you start defending them even before getting the fact.

        Maybe read a little closer before you start spouting off next time.

  • Every time l end up using an apple product, it just seems so in your face that they ensure every click you make benefits them somehow. They even control most of the connection between your computer and your phone to their benefit.

  • Product Placement Supervisor: Hip O. Crit

  • No iPhone user gives any kind of fuck. Anyone have a count of Slashdot no-story-here posts by non-Apple owners' outrage about Apple? Well, +1 I guess.

    • I'm an iPhone user, and I "give a fuck" that Apple is starting to show me ads.

      If they're gonna start behaving like Google, I might as well move to the company that offers a functional voice assistant...

  • For others, it means Apple doesn't get their percentage, here they get 100%.

  • If you have all Apple services, like a lot of people do... you don't see many notifications like this. The offer for Apple TV+ etc whenever I got a new Mac or iPhone was what flipped me over to android. Though Android has it's own problems...

    Apple, as well as Nintendo are converting to service companies to try to increase revenue. In the same way that Tim Cook replaced the vision of Jobs, Shuntaro replaced Iwata. Both are business men first.

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