Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

DrumStick wrote:
> DTC presented the following explanation :
>> Larry wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
>> Back in the '70s, my parents would turn on the TV around 5:30 in the 
>> early evening and kept it on until Johnny Carson was over.
> 
>> I called it "video wallpaper". I haven't watched commercial TV or cable
>> in over twenty years.
> 
>> As for TiVo...I bet its all a matter of time before the RIAA comes up
>> with a tactic prohibiting its use.
> 
> It's not just avoiding the commercials... There is absolutely nothing 
> worth watching... What may be worth watching always has some talking 
> head telling me about what I can see for myself or telling me how smart 
> the talking head thinks they are...and I'm supposed to pay for this????
> 
> Back to topic: Last I heard ads were not coming to cell phones...has 
> that changed?
> 
> 


You bet.  Marketers consider the $ell phone to be low-hanging fruit. 
Our only hope is for service providers to offer an opt out option. 
Since mobile ads are another revenue stream for them, don't hold your 
breath.

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jer
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