Comment Re:A Database to Snoop With? (Score 1) 182
I agree that indiscriminate advertising is intrusive (and as I mentioned, frequently irrelevant). I agree that people have the right to initiate a search.
The point I wanted to make is that it doesn't need to be indiscriminate and that people don't have to spend an inordinate amount of time searching for what they want. There has to be some common ground between companies that have products and services to offer and individuals who have needs to be met.
It's going to take more than a GPS receiver in OnStar to understand what my needs are as a consumer. The only way that's going to happen is if I tell them what I want. And it's not going to make me spend more, just help me find the things that I'm going to buy anyways, while saving me the time of querying databases all day or viewing boring, mindless ads.
Ads on OnStar, or any other application for that matter, will always be pointless unless we take a more proactive role in how they're relayed. Oh, and I think it's "all or nothing".. Either ads should be informative, or not sent at all.
The point I wanted to make is that it doesn't need to be indiscriminate and that people don't have to spend an inordinate amount of time searching for what they want. There has to be some common ground between companies that have products and services to offer and individuals who have needs to be met.
It's going to take more than a GPS receiver in OnStar to understand what my needs are as a consumer. The only way that's going to happen is if I tell them what I want. And it's not going to make me spend more, just help me find the things that I'm going to buy anyways, while saving me the time of querying databases all day or viewing boring, mindless ads.
Ads on OnStar, or any other application for that matter, will always be pointless unless we take a more proactive role in how they're relayed. Oh, and I think it's "all or nothing".. Either ads should be informative, or not sent at all.
