Attention, phone-makers: Our devices aren't your billboards

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A troubling trend is taking shape here in the land o' smartphones, and lemme tell ya: It's something that really gets my feathers
ruffled.The short version is this: Manufacturers of high-end, expensive devices are treating the phones they sell us as billboards
Despite the fact that we're often paying well over a thousand bucks for these pieces of technology, the companies behind 'em are inserting
ads into core parts of their operating systems in an attempt to squeeze even more money out of us — at the cost of our user
experience.We've seen renewed signs of such silliness on a few different fronts lately — and not only within Android: On the Apple side of
the mobile-tech garden, in fact, a developer recently pointed out how iOS is rapidly deteriorating into a place for Apple to advertise its
pay-to-play services
The goal, he explained, is to push those services — rather aggressively — onto customers who haven't yet signed up for recurring monthly
payments.