For many of us around the world advertising in an unfortunate, but unavoidable fact of life. But Japan's au by KDDI network has taken obtrusive marketing one step further, by pushing advertising directly to its Android subscribers.
Android users across Japan have complained about messages popping up in their in their notifications bar, complete with the usual vibration buzzing and noises that would normally indicate an otherwise innocent message.
Sources in Japan believe the AU one market, a preloaded alternative to the Google official Android market is responsible for the promotional alerts. Japanese users on Twitter have been up in arms as KDDI have made it very difficult to remove the AU one market from their devices, doing so would invalidate their warranties. (totaltele.com)
For many of us around the world advertising in an unfortunate, but unavoidable fact of life. But Japan's au by KDDI network has taken obtrusive marketing one step further, by pushing advertising directly to its Android subscribers.
Android users across Japan have complained about messages popping up in their in their notifications bar, complete with the usual vibration buzzing and noises that would normally indicate an otherwise innocent message.
Sources in Japan believe the AU one market, a preloaded alternative to the Google official Android market is responsible for the promotional alerts. Japanese users on Twitter have been up in arms as KDDI have made it very difficult to remove the AU one market from their devices, doing so would invalidate their warranties. (totaltele.com)