Gee I can't wait till MS's adware starts slowing down your in-car computer to a crawl. Incoming phone calls that don't ring until just before it goes to VM like on my WM5 phone or something.
Though to be fair, my understanding is iDrive runs MS software, and while it's got it's share of problems, random slowness/hanging is not one of them.
What they seem to not understand is that you don't OWN the airwaves, the rights to the music played on the radio, or the land that the billboards are on. Sure, you're *used* to seeing and hearing ads, but it doesn't mean you like it. Plus, it doesn't take up space on something you own. Why would I want some percentage of my (say) 800x600 display wasted on advertising? When you drop hundreds of dollars on a media system, or thousands on a SatNav system, you expect to be able to USE it.
They should instead compare it with how users would feel about paying for a computer, paying for a monitor, paying for a copy of Windows, and THEN having your hardware wasted to show you ads.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Gee I can't wait till MS's adware starts slowing down your in-car computer to a crawl. Incoming phone calls that don't ring until just before it goes to VM like on my WM5 phone or something.
Though to be fair, my understanding is iDrive runs MS software, and while it's got it's share of problems, random slowness/hanging is not one of them.
What they seem to not understand is that you don't OWN the airwaves, the rights to the music played on the radio, or the land that the billboards are on. Sure, you're *used* to seeing and hearing ads, but it doesn't mean you like it. Plus, it doesn't take up space on something you own. Why would I want some percentage of my (say) 800x600 display wasted on advertising? When you drop hundreds of dollars on a media system, or thousands on a SatNav system, you expect to be able to USE it.
They should instead compare it with how users would feel about paying for a computer, paying for a monitor, paying for a copy of Windows, and THEN having your hardware wasted to show you ads.
Some product/marketing folks just don't get it.