The Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader application for Android just spammed me. I haven't run it in weeks, yet it popped up a notification on my notification bar (including a vibrating notification like something actually important had happened) telling me about some sort of magazine sale. This sort of behavior is not OK.
To make matters the more interesting, I have a review for the Nook app up on the Play store. I went back to edit it to reduce it to one star for this transgression, but “an unexpected error has occurred,” and I'm supposed to try again later. Sure it has.
I have uninstalled the app. I will consider whether to use their service in the future. Banning them from my commercial life forever for a single spam might be a bit harsh, but on the other hand, spam is a huge problem and it is really not OK for them to be spamming me. If you want to show me advertisements when I run your app, fine. Notifications when it's not even running? Not so fine.
END RANT