iPhone lead in ad revenue generation slipping away Android users are seeing almost as many adverts as iPhone users, in Europe at least, and that is despite Apple customers seeing more than a billion adverts in January from independent ad network InMobi alone. Android is gaining ground fast, with InMobi reporting that it delivered nearly 750 million adverts to European Android …
I've got so used to the Cyanogen mod custom ROMs on my devices and a /etc/hosts file that redirects the ad-server host-names to localhost that I'd totally forgotten most devices suffer from over-ad-dose!
Pint since I'd rather pay beer money for applications and be in control of what I see. hear, and download to my own devices.
If I have a choice between an app subsidised by advertising and a fully paid app, I pay every time. I hate the intrusion of advertising and marketing into every facet of life. Frankly, I'm not interested in who wins the race for the most advertising (except perhaps to avoid them).
is, it appears, that we get bothered with fewer adverts or other annoying interruptions.
Mongolia is a great country for obtuse language.
In Ha Noi there are 'guides' who hang around the monuments and approach tourists asking them where they are from. Once they get an answer they whip out a little notebook with recommendations from, allegedly, people resident in the tourists home country as an endorsement for their services.
I always answer 'Mongolia' as it appears none have recommendations from that country.
At airports, when asked where you are headed, 'No where' is an answer that never fails to stump the touts.
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