Re: Annoying but inevitable

2007-07-09 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Sunday 08 July 2007 15:49:31 Attila Csipa wrote: What I find odd is that nobody considers that some users would WILLINGLY have/watch ads on their phone, depending on their plan, in exchange for better rates, rewards, whatever. You don't have to eliminate the ads, you can also eliminate the

Re: Annoying but inevitable

2007-07-09 Thread Attila Csipa
On Monday 09 July 2007 09:36, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: What I find odd is that nobody considers that some users would WILLINGLY have/watch ads on their phone, depending on their plan, in exchange for better rates, rewards, whatever. You don't have to eliminate the ads, you can also eliminate

Re: Annoying but inevitable

2007-07-08 Thread Mikko Rauhala
ti, 2007-07-03 kello 07:42 -0400, Vladimir Giszpenc kirjoitti: How about a Minority Report type of advertising on the phone using the GPS data? This could even be payed based on proximity (bonus when the ad worked). If the phone-end software is open, it'd be hackable to not display anything

Re: Annoying but inevitable

2007-07-08 Thread Attila Csipa
On Sunday 08 July 2007 11:47:58 Mikko Rauhala wrote: In short, yes, this is evil, but considering the open nature of the phone, I doubt many marketing people would pay a lot for their ads on this sort of a platform. What I find odd is that nobody considers that some users would WILLINGLY

Re: Annoying but inevitable

2007-07-03 Thread Luit van Drongelen
Hi, I don't think your idea is that bad at all, but it doesn't look like something that's possible. OpenMoko wants all software on the phone to be open-source, thus no ad-ware lock-in is possible. It's reversible. Plus, the phone won't be any cheaper because of this reversibility. But that's