I’ve seen a lot of “there’s only one” arguments in defense of this XBox “update” based on the idea that every advertisement has “ADVERTISEMENT” plastered underneath it. Well, I see two windows displaying advertisements, one of which slides between 3 other advertisements.

Five out of the eight tabs/blades/whatever now contain these “WE ADMIT THESE ARE ADVERTISEMENTS” advertisement boxes along with the big “THESE AREN’T ADVERTISEMENTS THESE ARE PART OF THE 60-DOLLAR-A-YEAR SOCIAL EXPERIENCE” advertisements.

So please, stop with that excuse. It doesn’t hold water.

EDIT: I don’t hate advertisements. I hate how they have taken over my connection (the amount of data being transferred at the dashboard now is incredible) and pushed aside my main uses for the XBox.

bassaniogratiano:

What better way to promote Superman Returns than by placing a twisted telephone pole in the middle of a busy city sidewalk? Even people with no interest in, or intention of seeing the movie, could not help but stop and inspect the pole. And, unlike commercials, it advertised the movie continuously at a fixed cost.