This is a part of the issue, knowing the rules but nonetheless not following them. And then — culturally unaware — thinking it's ok because nobody says anything.
Japanese on 恩 describes obligation (not necessarily with the negative connotation of the English word). Obligation to one's lord, to the emperor, one's parents, etc.
I recommend Chrysanthemum and the sword by Ruth Benedict for a more detailed understanding of this very important, albeit fading, part of Japanese culture.
C. It's interesting how you were seemingly hand-picked. I've seen more than a few apps. with flappy in the title and description. My guess is someone hit the report button and said their app was being violated. I'm not sure how though, because "flappy" isn't trademarked, describing gameplay similar to another game shouldn't be against TOS, and I doubt you were spamming. For the takedown, Nguyen would have to basically file those requests and point them to the original app.
madvertise only fills in some european countries. In case madvertise doesn't fill, I use AdMob. For madvertise I use a 30 seconds refresh rate, for AdMob 60 seconds. This explains the differences.
A while ago, the madvertise SDK had a bug which resulted in ads not being scaled. This resulted in very small ads that were clicked by accident almost all the time. After a while, this bug was fixed. When looking at the conversion rate for my house ads, it was totally obvious that the non-accidental clicks resulted in a respectable conversion while the accidental clicks had almost no positive effect. I think the google AdSense for mobile do a good jobs here because the user has to click them twice before anything happens.
True. INSTALL_PACKAGES is a permission with protectionLevel=signatureOrSystem. All other applications can do is take the user to an install-Activity hosted by the OS.
For my intention for installing SellAring, please see my answer above.
Hey, sure, I made considerations on how my users feel before integrating this kind of ads. I'm speaking about different monetization strategies on conferences and while the bad impression of notification push ads was proven by many apps, I wanted to check whether the reactions to SellAring were as bad (or, in other words, whether the notification bar is considered as personal as the empty auditive space before a call being accepted). They were and that's what I'm able to tell the other developers now based on a foundation of knowledge.
The whole concept of SellAring is completely absurd. Why would anybody tolerate a random app putting ads in their phone calls, when the app isn't even running? Whose insane idea was this?
I cannot imagine ever using an app you've written, knowing that you thought this was a good idea. What other absurd bullshit might you put on my phone without my knowledge?
Hi gwillen,
well, it seems like there are people tolerating it, otherwise SellAring wouldn't exist. Same for push notification networks like LeadBolt and Airpush.
I totally understand that you're mad though, a cellphone is a very private device. Do you personally feel that the notification bar should be considered equally personal as the space before someone picks up?
