November 17, 2009
Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware

This is ridiculously bad idea. Interruption-advertising is the method of the old medium of television and radio. The computer, its offspring devices and the internet aren’t suited for interruption-advertising, instead being well suited for permission-advertising, a lesson which Madison Ave has still not learned.

rockiltree:

Sounds annoying, and invasive, sure but in the long term this is good - advertising keeps this whole circus in business.