Will Operating Systems Become Ad Supported?
Steve Jobs, has applied for a patent titled ‘Advertisement in an Operating System’, and has listed himself as an ‘inventor’ of the application (US Patent Application 20090265214), says the Business Standard.
Is that the way that Operating Systems are going to go?
According to the application, the “the operating system can disable some aspect of its operation to prompt the operator to pay attention to the advertisement”.
The advertisements may include, for example, a rectangular banner ad, an audio ad, a video clip, an image file, executable code, embedded information, or any other media, content, or interactive advertisement.
Moreover, this is not limited to only computers, but could extend to include to cellphones, music players, etc.
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