Remember Ringback tones? Where you could pay money so when someone calls you, the caller hears a song instead of the standard carrier ring.
It’s technology waiting to be exploited. Imagine every time you call someone and their phone rings you hear a 5 second ad. Multiple ads if they don’t pick up.
Shhh don’t give them any ideas.
Cory Doctorow once gave the hypothetical example of a phone company doing a deal with Domino’s so that every time you called a rival pizzeria, you got “press 1 to be connected to Domino’s or wait 30 seconds to be put through to the number you dialled”
People still answer their phones?
Always
I dont get spam calls
I dont get spam calls
Spam calls are unwanted phone calls. They’re usually trying to sell you something. They may or many not try to scam you.
Hope you get it now.
So what if we had to watch an Ad to answer the phone to a person trying to sell us something? Wouldn’t that be the point we’re you’d throw your phone away
Judging by you first sentence all calls are spam calls
Which is why I never answer the phone.
that’s the perfect recipe for making me always leave my phone in airplane mode.
You wouldn’t download a car.
Soon we’ll have to manually update the electric cars for a cost, then some pirates will be releasing custom builds for cars.
