Thanks to @Bill_Gross for tweeting from the D8 conference. What a great quote this is, on a number of levels:

• I wasn’t aware that Apple was running at a loss prior going into the advertising game.
• While Apple have done a great job fostering a strong developer community around their product suite, I’m not sure they are doing such a good job in the future.

I guess the alternative is that he is saying providing developers with the mechanics to monetize their applications without having to charge for them - which is nice, but I was really looking forward to the a few people thinking outside of the box and coming up with alternative monetization strategies to advertising :/

Either way, I find it an amusing quote :)