Japanese carrier KDDI advertising in Android notification bar
Many people pay over $100 a month for their phone service, and carriers make good money off of it. Japanese carrier KDDI feels that wasn’t enough, and has just sent out an update to phones with the au Market pre-installed. What does the update include? Ads pushed to the notification bar. This means that at any moment owners of phones from KDDI could feel their phone vibrate, just to find an ad. We’ve seen some apps do that, but never something that a carrier installed on the phone and uses to make money.
The au Market is much like KDDI’s personal Android Market, and features apps users can download onto their Android devices. KDDI pre-installs this, and there is no way to get around it. Hopefully carriers won’t shift into advertising on phones, as that could lead to a huge backlash across the industry. How do you feel about carriers pushing ads to phones? Downright wrong, or do they need the cash? Let us know in the comments!
via Engadget
I don't see a problem with this. We all know that Carriers & Phone Manufacturers need all the money they can get. I mean come on guys these poor companies provide a device for us which gives us phone & data anywhere we are for a low fee usually around 80-100 bucks a month. And with an average of hundreds of millions of users on each carrier putting in a measly 80-100 bucks a month is don't right insulting. I mean come on everybody think of these carriers CEOs, stock holders,& board of director members they absolutely need a feet of G4 Private Jets over last years old fleet of G3'$. They need to drive $100,000 cars to work everyday. What do you think these guys should drive? A Volvo? Yeah right they don't ooo as good & don't promote an image of success. So from now what do you say? Can we give these Multi-Billionaires a break? Can we let them go ahead & also push ads to our devices as well? So they can look good deriving down the street? No? I didn't think so either take that shit of our phones!
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