Everything requires responsibility.
People show restraint with their bank cards and credit/charge cards, why is an iTunes account different (or Paypal or BidPay/Western Union, etc.)
I would never blindly enter my password for my iTunes account after someone else used my device and they did something to prompt for it. I would cancel the item and ask for them to perform the task again (or do it myself.) It also would not matter who it is because in the end I am responsible for those purchases or its use.
I admit I went searching for the Parental Controls and they took a while to find probably because I vaguely remember seeing Parent Controls at some point in the past but it is not Restrictions. Once I found Restrictions, it was pretty clear that everything was self explanatory to me (which I am drowning in technology so I am not a good comparison overall because of my tech expertise.)
As I previously mentioned, the scenario which involves the password being entered, the child racking up 2500 in IAPs, the owner getting an email notification about 2500 in charges, them calling Apple to reverse the charges and cancel the purchases before anything irreversible happened, is pretty much standard operating procedure. This would be different if it was months later and the developer was paid out, etc. As it stands, no one was out anything except maybe Apple for the time spent on customer care (but they make that up in their margins.)
I will go so far as to say 'Good Job Apple on being a cognizant payment processor' which is far better than some organizations I have to deal with that are backstopped by a very large government (who operates a payment system where you get refunds on a piece of paper good for 30 days but can not be used unless you add cash to the piece of paper and then take both to a cashier to add the money back on the card that should have just had the charges rolled back in the first place.)
IAPs work pretty much as intended, the default setup is a middle ground between so secure it is a pain to use and not so lax that purchases are easily racked up without any interaction. This scenario is more an edge case than anything substantiative (and that goes for the 23 million others too which is tiny on the scale of purchasing done via the iTunes App Store.) The only thing here that maybe worthwhile for Apple is to actually include a small section in the pamphlet on the Parental Controls/Restrictions to point people there who may actually read the documentation (and again for those that do not, you accept your own destiny then.)
People show restraint with their bank cards and credit/charge cards, why is an iTunes account different (or Paypal or BidPay/Western Union, etc.)
I would never blindly enter my password for my iTunes account after someone else used my device and they did something to prompt for it. I would cancel the item and ask for them to perform the task again (or do it myself.) It also would not matter who it is because in the end I am responsible for those purchases or its use.
I admit I went searching for the Parental Controls and they took a while to find probably because I vaguely remember seeing Parent Controls at some point in the past but it is not Restrictions. Once I found Restrictions, it was pretty clear that everything was self explanatory to me (which I am drowning in technology so I am not a good comparison overall because of my tech expertise.)
As I previously mentioned, the scenario which involves the password being entered, the child racking up 2500 in IAPs, the owner getting an email notification about 2500 in charges, them calling Apple to reverse the charges and cancel the purchases before anything irreversible happened, is pretty much standard operating procedure. This would be different if it was months later and the developer was paid out, etc. As it stands, no one was out anything except maybe Apple for the time spent on customer care (but they make that up in their margins.)
I will go so far as to say 'Good Job Apple on being a cognizant payment processor' which is far better than some organizations I have to deal with that are backstopped by a very large government (who operates a payment system where you get refunds on a piece of paper good for 30 days but can not be used unless you add cash to the piece of paper and then take both to a cashier to add the money back on the card that should have just had the charges rolled back in the first place.)
IAPs work pretty much as intended, the default setup is a middle ground between so secure it is a pain to use and not so lax that purchases are easily racked up without any interaction. This scenario is more an edge case than anything substantiative (and that goes for the 23 million others too which is tiny on the scale of purchasing done via the iTunes App Store.) The only thing here that maybe worthwhile for Apple is to actually include a small section in the pamphlet on the Parental Controls/Restrictions to point people there who may actually read the documentation (and again for those that do not, you accept your own destiny then.)
