Except half of Boxcar's functionality is to provide advertising. That's a lot like saying "I don't know why people complain about the Huffington Post and all o

Except half of Boxcar's functionality is to provide advertising. That's a lot like saying "I don't know why people complain about the Huffington Post and all of their advertising when reputable sites like eBay are nothing but people trying to sell me stuff." And let's not get ahead of ourselves with the whole "push notifications have always been ads" - push notifications have always been with providing the end user with desired information. That may well come to include advertising, but up until this point advertising in push notifications has been an outlier at best.