I recommend not using any sort of advertisement while user is in a call because: It would be really interesting to know where Oovoo has done its market research where 8 out of 10 people prefer it over Skype? Probably in Oovoo headquarter office in New York. Skype has its own problems and that is why I decided to try an alternative. I am not a Skype employee but I use it a lot. ![]() If you are talking to another person, you don’t want to be distracted with annoying advertisement whether it is noise or flashy animation. Don’t force people to see what they don’t like to. Then quite surprisingly I found out it is a little advertisement banner on the very same window that is used for the video call!Īnd remember all of those red rectangles in the above pictures can contain advertisement in Flash, that means annoying animation, unwanted sound and stealing your bandwidth which can reduce the user experience while in a video call: the main purpose of installing the application! Solutionįirst of all: don’t be evil. I closed my browser windows and checked the TV. I couldn’t find the source of this annoyance. The person who was talking to me thought that I am starting to watch a movie in the middle of the conversation. Suddenly I heard a loud scary sound of car engine, then there was shooting and screaming. I had to turn the volume up because I could hardly hear my friend. The first time I encountered this issue, I was in the middle of a call. Yes, you heard it right! In the middle of a video call (or voice call), you may hear strange voices which comes from the Flash advertisements that Oovoo shows to you. You know why? Because of super-annoying advertisements which has sound and appears while in a video call. I guess I’m one of those 2 people who prefers Skype over Oovoo. ![]() Oovoo claims 8 out of 10 Skype users prefer Oovoo! ![]() The videos are embedded using standard HTML5 techniques. When Apple introduced iPad mini on 24th of October, this problem didn’t exist on their website. Think about how inconvenient are the tv ads in the middle of a movie. That is sometimes because of advertisement, a user process is made harder than it can be. Why would they even bother to install it just to watch an ad? Do you really think potential Apple users are as religious as Apple fanboys?Īnyway, advertisement is one of the motives that sometimes contradicts with user friendliness. I mean come on! Many windows users don’t have QuickTime. Use any other conventional and popular method to embed the video on your site. Why did I switch to Mac anyway? Because that’s the closest I can get to Unix and still be able to run Adobe Creative Suit software which is an essential software for web development. Is that particular ad technically so complicated that the user cannot watch it with any of the conventional methods like Flash or HTML5 video? Of course not! The answer is: Apple is a control freak and tries to limit the users to its own technologies. Why should a user bother to convert to Apple before even switching to their hardware. Apple wants you to install quicktime to watch ads about macbook proĪpple wants you to install quicktime to watch ads about macbook pro.
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