Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

On Jun 16, 9:56=A0am, "Thurman" <thur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Here comes the cell phone ad disaster
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>http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=3DviewArticleBas..=
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> > Fascinating article
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> > "Here are just some of the conduits through which advertising will
> > enter into your cell phone:
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> > "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.
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> > We have nowhere to go. The disaster is coming, and there's not much
> > any of us can do about it ."
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> " there's not much any of us can do about it ."
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> Untrue.
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> We developers are working alternatives even as you make ill-informed
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> What you see as a disaster, is an op****tunity for something like 40,000
> developers world wide.
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I believe those statments are made by Mike Egan, ComputerWorld,  who
researched that article which apparently you did not bother to read in
full.