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| Thread ID: 105061 | 2009-11-17 18:21:00 | Go Apple, How to Encourage Customers | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 831101 | 2009-11-17 18:21:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz A patent application filed by Apple in the US has revealed it is in the middle of copyrighting software technology which would force consumers to watch or listen to adverts on its products. Described in the application as "enforcement routine" software, consumers will be unable to skip the adverts, and may be asked questions to ensure they have understood them. For example, people listening to adverts on their iPods may be asked to press button combinations to prove they have been paying attention. A wrong answer could result in the device being temporarily locked. On the plus side, the advertising revenues would enable Apple to sell their products more cheaply. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 831102 | 2009-11-17 21:17:00 | ROFL at the ad app. As if they haven't already loaded sufficient penalty features onto the things. Ah well, WMG will admire the aplleness of it all and roll around in joy like a moggy in catnip. Like Nortons, it makes a virus seem like the easy way out. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 831103 | 2009-11-17 21:19:00 | "the most invasive, demeaning, anti-utopian and downright horrible piece of cross-platform software technology that anybody's ever thought of" Excellent. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 831104 | 2009-11-17 21:28:00 | "the most invasive, demeaning, anti-utopian and downright horrible piece of cross-platform software technology that anybody's ever thought of" Excellent. Sounds like Sony's rootkit software!! :lol: |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 831105 | 2009-11-17 21:50:00 | It is not really a new concept. You would have the option to buy a cheaper product with the adverts or not. Did you not read the full article. Spotify, an online music library, is causing excitement within the music industry as a potential answer to the problem of online piracy. Unlike Apple’s iTunes, where customers have to pay for each track they download, subscribers to Spotify can access thousands of music tracks for free if they agree to listen to adverts. You can also pay a monthly charge and avoid the adverts Here is another take on it. industry.bnet.com Here’s what the patent application actually says: Among other disclosures, an operating system presents one or more advertisements to a user and disables one or more functions while the advertisement is being presented. At the end of the advertisement, the operating system again enables the function(s). The advertisement can be visual or audible. The presentation of the advertisement(s) can be made as part of an approach where the user obtains a good or service, such as the operating system, for free or at reduced cost. That last sentence is the most interesting: It suggests that Apple is interested in distributing its devices and software free to anyone willing to make a tradeoff by sitting through some ads. This is a time-honored business strategy that has previously been fantastically successful. Radio worked that way for decades. So did broadcast TV. If you’ve ever read a free newspaper, like a weekly shopper or an Alt-weekly, then you’ve seen this model before. In the same way that radio, broadcast TV and free newspapers once reached 90 percent of the population, so might laptops iPods and iPhones in Africa and Asia. With an installed base of users on freebies, how stupid would this idea then look as those populations become more affluent? |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 831106 | 2009-11-17 21:54:00 | Sounds like Sony's rootkit software!! :lol: But with added Macity Mac smugness and extra Mc sauce. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 831107 | 2009-11-17 22:26:00 | Doesn't matter to me. I wouldn't have one even if they paid me. IMHO Apple are even worse than M$, they pretend that they somehow have cooler products and will somehow set you free. All the while they are even more restrictive and proprietary than M$ ever are. They are a bunch of con men.:groan: |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 831108 | 2009-11-17 22:54:00 | Not all Mac products are bad - their aroni is pretty good occasionally. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 831109 | 2009-11-17 23:00:00 | Not all Mac products are bad - their aroni is pretty good occasionally. :lol: |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 831110 | 2009-11-17 23:26:00 | But with added Macity Mac smugness and extra Mc sauce. Saying bad things about Mac will get you abuse, unlike saying bad things about Lucas and Nortons (software not the bikes) |
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