Why Apple's iAd platform is a 'tough slog' on Madison Ave.Apple is "the best-looking girl at the party, forced to wear a bag over her head."
<p>FORTUNE -- Unveiled by Steve Jobs in June 2010 with a promise of new generation of low-cost mobile ads that not only didn't "suck" but would have users coming back for more, the iAd platform was supposed to be Apple's (AAPL) answer to Google's (GOOG) AdMob.</p>
<p>But advertisers didn't exactly fall over themselves to fork over the minimum $1
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Why Apple's iAd platform is a 'tough slog' on Madison Ave.