Saturday, April 6, 2013

postheadericon Apple's in-app game charges: how my kids ran up huge bills

3:10 PM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post

My children can not have cost her parents ? 3,700 per family - but why the tech giant so easy for kids to buy accessories

What kind of parent allows their children to spend thousands of pounds on virtual jewelry? How many of us have read a download Doug Crossan when she discovered her teenage son "studious, polite and sensitive" had managed to spend € 3,700 into the coffers of gold iPad games, and no one doubted his paternity or worse , the technological skills

I have an idea of ??what kind of father he is - me. Over a period of six weeks, my three children were able to accumulate a total of 350 pounds to play two games for free download on our iPad. Without each individual purchase or Clash of Clans DragonVale totaled over 15 pounds, but when we realized Apple accounts for "jewelry bags" which was set up soon.

my five year old child began to cry when I suggested that she had spent the pocket money for the next year. My husband much more reasonable to note that, since he had been asked not to enter a password to make purchases in a game, thought they were free. "They think it is virtual money in an imaginary country and it is real money that comes from my credit card," he said.

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the clash of clans are often the highest grossing applications in the Apple store, while apparently free to play. A recent Wired article describes some of adult players who happily spend thousands of dollars in the strategy game. Problems develop when children like mine and the 13-year-old Cameron Crossan understand that this is not real money accelerates his superpowers, not their game play skills.

Apple refused to cancel thousands of pounds spent by Cameron quoted an official and stressing the fact that all their products contain password locks to prevent accidental or unwanted purchases parent. But the company and game developers to exploit children by making clear rules?
  • In February, Apple has agreed to pay up to $ 100 million compensation to parents whose children ran massive bills using their apps free and highly addictive. Up to 23 million Americans are expected to claim the money parents - parents in the UK and elsewhere are excluded
  • So what can parents do to let our children go shopping in the application without a password? If you just say "no" does not work for you (not for me) is the software you need to face as much as a young child. Check the operating system, but you need to turn off in-app purchases. In Settings go to restrictions, then "Enable Restrictions - the in-app purchases." "" And "Prompt" immediately And do not share your password with your child. If you change the default settings to stop all in-app purchases, note that some versions of IOS allow window 15 minutes after downloading the application if no password is required for future purchases. In other words, an adult type in a password to allow the download of the iPad application goes to their children, who can then make several in-app purchases for 15 minutes without having to enter a password. Stuart Dredge, The Guardian blogger applications, offers a few tips here.
My own story has a much happier end that Crossan, who is a policeman and brought his own son for fraud to obtain your credit card company to refund the money. My husband e-mail client and Apple will refund all.

Apparently, some people wonder children left alone with tablets. Are they crazy? Not only is it free childcare, do you hear about the computer 17-year-old as London worth millions today? Continue to play these games, children. Hurry up and make money instead of spending it.


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