Now apparently the mobile platform of choice, the Apple iPhone has benefited from its sound understanding of human factors and ergonomics – but is this reputation threatened by a looming avalanche of advertising?
so you had the misfortune of standing behind one of those Extreme Couponers. I like saving money but do hate the hassle of clipping and retrieving coupons. They also always seem to be expired by the time I'm set to buy the product they apply to. Online coupons for online orders are much neater and simpler to use for me.
I was watching an older movie ("Mr. Mom") last night and had to chuckle at the poker party scene where all of the housewives were playing poker for discount coupons.
I have known people like this.
The other day the lady in front of me in a groc store checkout line pulled out over $200 worth of coupons!
So for better or worse--ads seem to have embedded themselves in the fabric of daily life.
Well, the advertisers have not found ways so far to avoid annoyance. Indeed, on broadcast TV, they repeat ads over and over in the same couple of minutes in order to reinforce the annoyance.
Ads are often funny, but many times, they try to be funny and fall flat.
I'm not sure how mobile ads could be made less annoying. Over a half century, broadcast advertisers didn't find a way to make TV ads less so.
Mary I agree advertiser overlook the basis of creating wants by annoying consumers.Speaking from my own experience I seldom use a any product being advertised unabatetd to me, its just makes advertisers sound desperate as if the product is not good enough on its own that it needs the cruthes of endless advertisment, it's just sickening to me.
We had been watching Once Upon A Time on Netflix. Season 1 ended; to get Season 2 it seems we have to go to ABC. We watched part of one episode and decided to wait till it's available sans advertisiing. It was a nightmare trying to stay focused on the story with an interrruption every ten minutes.
Further, if I see any alternative to the products that were advertised, I'll be sure to buy it instead of whatever it was that was pounded into my head during the show. It was even worse than trying to watch broadcast tv, and that's pretty bad.
[just realized the main topic here is iPhone...I'm complaining about advertising on laptop/desktop environment. Same problem applies, there are way too many ads.
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