[CodeToad]

“What makes smartphone users think they’ll find great content w/o advertisers paying the bill to create great content? How many web designers will work for free?”

When people are paying $100/month for service I think the advertisments are too much. They are making money without paying those that paid for the service in the first place.

[mmichaels1970]

When people are paying $100/month for service I think the advertisments are too much. They are making money without paying those that paid for the service in the first place.

That entire $100 goes to the service providers, not the content providers. When you pay your $100 bill, the entire amount goes to Verizon, or Sprint, or AT&T. Independent developers spend countless hours developing apps and sites. They then have to basically give them away to a public that demands them for free or for a buck. These developers get absolutely no cut of that $100/month.

Integrating advertisements in exchange for publishing a "free" product is a very fair trade-off imho.

Most apps that have integrated advertising can be purchased at a higher price with the advertising removed.