[...] Mobile advertising thinks outside the bun [...]

I don’t have a problem with ads as long as it is not too intrusive. Look at it this way, if you had a choice of paying $500 a month for basic cable with no advertisements or $40-60 with advertisements which would you choose?

The way these companies are currently making money are by selling devices at a cost much greater than the cost to develop, build, and support them to service providers who recoup the cost by requiring that you sign a 2 year contract (for me and my wife the equivalent of $3672).

If the Nexus One, Google phone, HTC Passion, whatever can be sold at a cost cheaper than other smart phones and can truly be a voip cellular phone with no need for a $76 per month plan with some advertisements I say Hell Yes.

[...] will be virtually buying new mobile users. And with all the new mobile services that Google offers (including new advertising schemes), you can bet they could easily monetize the device enough to do [...]

Works for Dunkin Doughnuts, also. Popped up when I was looking for places to eat, like bagel shops.

You didn’t think Google was rolling out slick little apps for our benefit did you? Everything they do is to deliver ads – their bread and butter. Google Navigation was only released to provide proximity marketing. Get ready, it’s coming. And if the Google phone ever becomes a reality, I’m betting it will be laced with advertising on every pane.

I noticed this with the new google maps last week when I did a search for Taco Bell.. so far haven’t seen any other ads/companies taking advantage of this.. anyone else see this with any other companies?

as long as it pops up when i am looking for something relevant like fast food or mexican food (alltho that might be questionable)

if its just a layer you can turn off even better

I can see this being annoying, but, for now, it’s not horrible

Hmmm… Actually, yes — I’m suddenly feeling the urge to stop on the way home tonight. :-)

I think this is fine as long as its not there all the time as with other apps.