When I clicked on this headline, I expected to be disappointed by some ugly Google shenanigans.
When I read the article, my initial reaction was, "Oh yuck. That's just vile. I'd definitely give his app a single star, uninstall it, and complain to my friends. Not sure how I feel about Google yanking it, though."
But the more I thought about notification advertising, the more it reminded me of the dark days of Windows XP before the SP2 security fixes. Every other computer, it seemed, was infected with adware, and users loathed it. The cried, they yelled, and they even bought new computers in a desperate attempt to make the ads go away.
So upon reflection, if Google is going to pull anything at all from their Market (besides obvious scams, and so on), they should definitely start with applications that make users feel powerless and angry about their devices.
When I read the article, my initial reaction was, "Oh yuck. That's just vile. I'd definitely give his app a single star, uninstall it, and complain to my friends. Not sure how I feel about Google yanking it, though."
But the more I thought about notification advertising, the more it reminded me of the dark days of Windows XP before the SP2 security fixes. Every other computer, it seemed, was infected with adware, and users loathed it. The cried, they yelled, and they even bought new computers in a desperate attempt to make the ads go away.
So upon reflection, if Google is going to pull anything at all from their Market (besides obvious scams, and so on), they should definitely start with applications that make users feel powerless and angry about their devices.