Comments on: How Advertising is Going To Ruin The Mobile Phone

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:40:42 +0000

It all depends on how they implement the ads. I watch video on Hulu because I think they do ads right. I realize there they need to make money, and I would rather watch two minutes of ads then pay $2.

If the apps on the iPhone can find the same balance that Hulu has found people will use them. If they are intrusive and annoying like the ads in Vogue, then people will stop using them. I believe they will self regulate.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:44:41 +0000

Honestly, Pandora’s doing us a big favor – the ads are visual. Works for me since my iPhone is docked with the speakers and I’m not looking at it. It they insert audio ads (like Slacker does on their free plan for hardware), I’d rather pay $7/month or whatever to be free of them.

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:49:39 +0000

MTV is the worst! More ads than TV:(

By: Nigel

Nigel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:14:05 +0000

I would rather pay to have it ad free. There are too many ads on television, the radio and the internet. I can understand all of that because it is free, but now my pay TV is bloated with ads almost as much as commercial TV, it drives me batshit insane.

By: David S

David S — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:44:54 +0000

i hate ads so much i’d rather pay for an app to keep it free of them. hopefully if a developer elects to use ads, they’ll offer a paid-for ad-free version.

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:37:45 +0000

So far I don’t really have a problem with the ads^—^

Guess we will se had bad it gets. All I want is a damn sling player for my iphone, come on sling!

By: Seth Scott

Seth Scott — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:35:32 +0000

Pandora just got removed from my iphone and will be followed closely by any app that spams me with ads.