...but somebody has to pay the bills, you don't get something for nothing. Its only fair that advertising be used as a means of financing the delivery of useful content. When I buy an astronomy or sailing magazine, I don't resent the advertising in it, even if the ads are for non-astronomy, or non-sailing goods and services. I can see why the makers of fine watches or sporty automobiles might advertise in yachting magazines.

But when publications or web content is assembled primarily as a means of delivering advertisements, it really pisses me off. Its like the fashion magazines, that are filled with page after page of glossily produced ads and which actually contain no articles at all.

The astronomy rags haven't gotten that bad, but a lot of boating magazines seem to have evolved into primarily a means of marketing expensive gear and accessories. The articles are getting scarcer and thinner, and less valuable. Your post suggests something similar is happening with "Android", whatever the hell that is.

Again, don't get me wrong, there is nothing bad about commercials, and they serve a perfectly legitimate social and economic function. But advertising for the sake of advertising, as an end in itself, is perverse and decadent.

What is wrong with these people? Have they no shame? How can any self-respecting human being earn his living doing this kind of work? There is something about the commercial mentality I find very disturbing, even obscene.