I wish I could take credit for this idea, but it’s from someone else, will Apple sell iAds that only show up in the iPhone simulator? Probably not, but it would be a hell of a targeted demographic.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with how building iPhone software works, we developers spend thousands of hours testing and debugging our programs in an iPhone Simulator application that runs on our Macs. The simulator can’t run Apps from the App Store, only programs compiled from source code with Xcode. So the only people using the simulator are programers, or otherwise deeply involved with building iOS apps. Apple could make it so that any iAds in the simulator would show special ads targeted to developers.
Better still, iAds in the simulator could show something useful like rules from the Human Interface Guidelines (that too few read), good tips or even inspiring quotations.