Ads to set Mobiles free
p2pnet.net News:- Google ceo Eric Schmidt thinks mobile phones of the future should be free.
As long as you pay for them by allowing yourself to be inundated with advertising.
In brilliant corporate treble-speak, Schmidt says as mobiles become more like handheld systems and consumers spend more time talking, texting and using the web on them, advertising becomes “a viable form of subsidy,” says AAP.
And, “Google is experimenting with delivering text, brand-image and video ads onto small-screen mobile phones,” says the story.
Schmidt was interviewed following a speech on the theme of business innovation organized by Italian student groups and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, says AAP, adding Google is, “enjoying early success in its strategy to win phone network allies in Japan, where TV viewing and shopping on phones is advanced”.
Also See:
AAP – Google CEO sees free mobile phone future, November 13, 2006
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November 13th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Really.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
imagine talking to your mom and all of a fuckin sudden you get interrupted by a damn mcdonalds commercial and have to wait for it to finish before you can continue to talk.
advertising has a medium and eventually the medium will draw a line in the sand. mobile companies make to much money to hand it all over for some ads. If a mobile company makes 2 billion dollars a year in monthly fees from their subscribers…. what makes them think they can come close to that in advertising revenue.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:55 am
Yet another reason to add google and its ads into my block list, if enough people do that it would drive a message that we don’t want to be slaves to ads.