Push notification... ads for Android

[runawayprisoner]

Oh God, are you serious?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXNA6tabKNA

Good thing the Captivate will be my last Android phone. Can't imagine that future.

 

[foghorn67]

Oh my gosh. Please oh please make the bad man stop. I'll eat the cost and terminate early and go Apple if that's the case.

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[cardiac]

That video was released on March 28th. Maybe they should have waited until April 1st......

 

[WelshBloke]

Yeah. Developers, that's going to get your app deleted really quickly.

If you make a good ad supported app I'll be happy to buy the full version. Start hassling me with ads in my notification tray and you'll never see any business from me again.

 

[simonizor]

Any app that supports that feature will be immediately deleted from my phone and never installed again, even if the dev removes the ads.

@OP: This stupid idea is no reason to stop supporting Android. It's not like these ads will be installed by default; you'd have to download an app that had them.

 

[WelshBloke]

Any app that supports that feature will be immediately deleted from my phone and never installed again, even if the dev removes the ads.

@OP: This stupid idea is no reason to stop supporting Android. It's not like these ads will be installed by default; you'd have to download an app that had them.

And there would be another app out within a week that would block them.

 

[cardiac]

And there would be another app out within a week that would block them.

And that would be the one I would pay for

 

[Fox5]

I could see Google banning this. This is basically the android equivalent of the spyware of old, random pop up ads.

 

[runawayprisoner]

@OP: This stupid idea is no reason to stop supporting Android. It's not like these ads will be installed by default; you'd have to download an app that had them.

No, but it's one reason for me to move away from the platform, based on how developers are viewing it.

I'm with the mindset that is willing to pay if the software is right and well done. $0.99 or $9.99 is almost nothing compared to how much I have to pay for my Adobe Suite. What would annoy me more is if developers were to view the platform entirely through the scope of how much they can monetize on the demographic and not on how much they can innovate their applications then get a return from it.

This coupled with many other nuisances I've had from trying to use my phone as a mobile device (messed up IMEI, GPS lock, jumpy baseband) is enough for me to look back and get a phone that just works. Something from Nokia, for instance...

 

[Mopetar]

Based on one Android developers account people won't put up with this kind of crap.

His application got loads of bad reviews, he got a lot of negative feedback, and enough people started reporting the app as being malicious and Google pulled it for a period of time. I don't foresee many other developers thinking that this is a good idea anymore.

The big worry is if someone decides to use this with one of the crapplications that can't be uninstalled unless you root the phone. It need not even start that way if an update patches this behavior in later.