Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

4phun <vic.healey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:56c8948e-fe25-4e83-956b-
7ffb2a4e3cbb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "The problem isn't that somebody out there is looking for innovative
> ways to leverage your cell phone to sell you something. The problem is
> that everybody is doing it. The result will turn your cell phone into
> an annoying, interrupting, commercial idiot box that combines all the
> worst qualities of TV, telemarketing and spam.
> 
> We have nowhere to go. The disaster is coming, and there's not much
> any of us can do about it ."
> 
> 

Hasn't that become true of every other piece of entertainment hardware 
you own?  I call television "the ad billboard in your living room".  
That's EXACTLY what television has become.  I turned mine off for the 
last time in 1992 and never got another one.  I'm not going to PAY some 
company to deliver advertising to me....i.e. cable TV.

I believe the American public is so starved for entertainment free of 
adverts is the reason for YouTube's fantastic success.  You can watch 
several minutes of YouTube without being spammed, usually.  It has also 
kept usenet hopping.  The downloading has gotten so heavy that ISPs are 
looking for a way to stop the downloading so the users will go back to 
watching "the ad billboard in your living room".  Time-Warner is 
eliminating Usenet service this month.  Others are sure to follow.

Look at you, right now!  You're sitting there reading this ADVERTISING 
FREE message your cable or telephone company isn't getting paid double to 
deliver to you!  How terrible, how unAmerican!...(c;