I'm sure there is a backdoor... for iAds. I can't imagine why they would have an...

forrestthewoods · on March 25, 2012

Are iAds popular? In 3+ years of owning an iPhone I'm not sure I have ever seen one in the wild. I've used a fair number of free apps that have ads but not a single one of them used iAds.

fpgeek · on March 25, 2012

No, iAds aren't popular (Apple is more secretive about iAds revenue than Google is about the Android Market... I mean the Google Play Store).

But then neither is the iBookstore and Apple keeps plugging away at it (and their competition) nevertheless.

objclxt · on March 25, 2012

I think the key difference between iBooks and iAds is that there is at least some demand from users for the former - some people buy iPads to primarily use as eReaders, whereas nobody is buying iPads to look at iAds.