Airpush are quite happy to support developers who want to deceive their users.
Live Chat Transcript:
Me: What are your guidelines for notifying end-users about notification area ads?
You are now speaking with Lisa of Sales.
Lisa: Hello
Me: Hi
Lisa: Welcome to Airpush Lisa: Are you a developer or advertiser?
Me: developer
Lisa: Great Lisa: Regarding your question, you can which users will receive your ad and that too how often Lisa: adjust*
Me: How does a user know which app is sending the ads?
Lisa: It will be reflecting your developer's dashboard once you start listing your apps
Me: i.e. User X updates a dozen apps and suddenly starts getting notification ads. How do they know which app is creating them? Me: I'm talking about end users here Me: not developers or advertisers
Lisa: ok Lisa: There is an API key through which you can control the user engagements Lisa: by a push notofication ad
Me: I don't understand how that sentence relates to my question.
Lisa: in this case, the users will receive the ad any time an ad is pushed to a device, whether or not the user actually views the ad or not.
Me: I asked how a user knows which app triggered an ad.
Me: are ads labelled with the originating app name?
Lisa: He will be receiving it in a push notification tray
Me: are ads labelled with the originating app name?
Lisa: Just give me a moment. let me check
Me: To repeat an earlier example - User X updates a dozen apps and suddenly starts getting notification ads. How do they know which app is creating them?
Lisa: for each app they need to setup airpush sdk so they will get the report data in their airpush controlpanel
Me: That doesn't answer my question. Do you understand what I'm asking you? Me: Imagine I am a user. Me: I install several apps and one of them contains Airpush. Me: I suddenly get notification ads and want to know which app is creating them. How can I tell? Me: Are you still there?
Lisa: It depends on the app setting and cannot control that Lisa: And the ads are not labelled with the originating app name?
Me: If a user dislikes the ads - is there any way for him to know which app caused it? I'm worried I'll get bad ratings.
Lisa: No Lisa: The user will not know
Me: Hopefully users won't know it's my app that's doing it so they won't uninstall my app.
Lisa: No don't worry about that. Lisa: Here you can also benefit through inactive users as you can configure your settings to deliver ads to users who haven't used an app for X days
Me: And they won't know it's me?
Lisa: No not at all.
Me: Cool. Me: OK. You seem quite happy to support developers who knowingly spam their users. Do you mind if I publish a transcript of this conversation so other people can see how little regard you have for end-users? Me: Hopefully it will hasten the speed at which your nasty company goes out of business
Lisa: Surely it will not.
Me: It's a very revealing conversation.
Me: Thank-you for being so candid.
Lisa: But I believe we maintain our privacy
Me: Who's privacy?
Lisa: And as long as we receive good responses, we will definitely look up to everyone's reputation
Me: Do you receive good responses from end-users?
Lisa: Yes definitely.
Me: Like all the users of APN Droid who have been leaving 1 star reviews and complaints on the Market?
Lisa: Anyways you can download our SDK and start listing your apps if you are happy with it.
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