Ok its definitely angry birds doing this, I've had it 'in game' several times in the last couple of days.
I'm beginning to think of this as being "yogirolled" - tricked into watching a trailer for the new yogi bear film when I expected to play a game instead... How long before we have this kind of treat embedded into the OS I wonder. Never, I hope, it really is annoying [finger hovers over 'uninstall'] On Feb 9, 10:15 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < > > > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/09/2011 10:44 PM, Phil wrote: > > >> Has anybody with a Nexus One (or any other Froyo phone) experienced > >> what just happened to me? I'm sat working at my Mac, phone on charge > >> next to me. The screen is on and unlocked, sitting on the home page. > >> All of a sudden a Yogi Bear trailer starts playing and I've not even > >> touched the phone! I press the home button and it goes away. How did > >> that happen? > > >> Do you know that those white pills that you use for increasing > > programming efficiency sometimes have side effects? ;-) > > > Seriously, it's scary. But, believe it or not, googling seems to have > > brought the answer: > > >http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/273917-i-hate-yogi-bear.html > > > Does it fit with your case? Could it be AdFree? If it is, I'd be so pleased > > to have a new reason for which I don't install ad-backed apps. > > You might have misunderstood that link: the person was just suggesting to > install AdFree, but we still don't know what caused this. > > The post seems to hint that it's Angry Birds that caused the ad to display, > though. Phil, are you sure you weren't playing? Or maybe the game was in the > background? (still not an excuse to do that) > > By the way, this kind of thing is pretty easy to do on Android, try "Chrome > to Phone" for a good example (and by good, I mean "useful"). Send a URL from > your desktop to your phone and less than a second later, it pops up on your > phone. Scary. > > -- > Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
