Really I cant believe apple and now google are selling "ads on your phone" as a feature! WTF! I don't want this shit built into the phone's OS! leave it to the app developer to find a way to put ads in their app if that's truly the way they want to pay for their app. I don't want some OS level API mining though all the data on my phone to target ads at me, that's no better then spyware/malware in my book. I guess for now thats going to leave WinMO and WebOS the only with out this crap marketing "API" built in
@d0ug They're selling it as a feature to devs, which it is. They're announced and shown off at industry conferences, not consumer shows and commercials.
And we all win in the end. It makes things nicer and more interactive. Ads will be there anyway, might as well bake in Fandango functionality or a game while they're at it.
@JONNNathannn I have no problem with specific apps being ad supported if the developer really wants to go that route, though i personally would rather just flat out pay for an app and not deal with ads. I can choose to boycott those apps if I don't want anything to do with the advertising. The problem I have is the fact that this is all built into the OS on the phone, and the phone is likely going to be constantly data mining your browsing history, txts, emails and other data even when these ad supported apps aren't running so they can have a nicely built profile on you.
@SirNoDroin and i will do just that, I have a brand new HD2 that im perfectly happy with and should keep me happy for awhile. Likely the XDA will have all kinds of mobile OSes hacked on to the HD2 in time, maybe newer versions of android with all the advertising BS stripped out. Time will tell.
However i see the HD2 hardware platform as one with a few years of life in it, depending on what people eventually can hack onto it.
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Really I cant believe apple and now google are selling "ads on your phone" as a feature! WTF! I don't want this shit built into the phone's OS! leave it to the app developer to find a way to put ads in their app if that's truly the way they want to pay for their app. I don't want some OS level API mining though all the data on my phone to target ads at me, that's no better then spyware/malware in my book. I guess for now thats going to leave WinMO and WebOS the only with out this crap marketing "API" built in
@d0ug They're selling it as a feature to devs, which it is. They're announced and shown off at industry conferences, not consumer shows and commercials.
And we all win in the end. It makes things nicer and more interactive. Ads will be there anyway, might as well bake in Fandango functionality or a game while they're at it.
@d0ug
ProTip: Don't buy the phone/app if you don't agree with it. Thats what I plan on doing.
Typically the consumer market has this magically ability to make things go away that people don't buy.
@JONNNathannn I have no problem with specific apps being ad supported if the developer really wants to go that route, though i personally would rather just flat out pay for an app and not deal with ads. I can choose to boycott those apps if I don't want anything to do with the advertising. The problem I have is the fact that this is all built into the OS on the phone, and the phone is likely going to be constantly data mining your browsing history, txts, emails and other data even when these ad supported apps aren't running so they can have a nicely built profile on you.
@SirNoDroin and i will do just that, I have a brand new HD2 that im perfectly happy with and should keep me happy for awhile. Likely the XDA will have all kinds of mobile OSes hacked on to the HD2 in time, maybe newer versions of android with all the advertising BS stripped out. Time will tell.
However i see the HD2 hardware platform as one with a few years of life in it, depending on what people eventually can hack onto it.