WHY are you paranoid?! For your first purchase, you are required to put in a password. Just don't let your FIVE year old have the device while that password window is active (probably 15 minutes). You must not buy much because having to buy an iTunes card every time you want to use the store would be miserable.This exact same thing happened with my 5 year old son a few weeks ago. It was to a much lesser extent though. He spent $40 on an in-app purchase. Our credit card was immediately refunded. From that point on, we have removed our credit card information from our iTunes account. If we ever need to purchase anything, it will be with iTunes gift cards. I realize you can turn off in-app purchases in settings, but now I'm paranoid.
Something is wrong with society if a 5-year-old child is able to spend $2500 in a few minutes.
This is not Apple's fault. Its a bit "cheeky" of the developer to put a £69.99 IAP in a Children's app but, ultimately, its the parents' fault. Parental Controls DO exist (and are not hard to find) and, technically, that app was aged 9 and upwards. So only the parents have themselves to blame.
Good parenting is hard o find these days.
As stated, there's Parental Controls... that toggle is there for a reason, and I don't get why people don't enable it.
something is wrong with society when threads like this pop up and more than half of the responders sit back and actually blame parents..
they're defending a multibillion dollar company that's involved in scamming 'the people'..
look.. apple doesn't need you to defend them.. in no way shape or form.. you owe them absolutely zero loyalty.. they are a corporation for christ sakes..
but you're siding with a corporation at the expense of breaking ties with your neighbor.. (i.e.- pretty much exactly why the system works as it does)..
i don't care if this is the parent's fault.. you should still side with them prior to siding with a corporation.. why is this not obvious? (probably because we_the_people don't have sweet ad campaigns being pumped into our brains every 5 minutes?)
Why not calling Applecare first place and ask how to configure the parental controls on IOS?? or go online and search for it, simple as that. Apple have even a Kb for that. Took me 20 seconds on google to find it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4213
(includes in Apps purchases)
People need to take responsibility for the gadgets they own, specially if credit cards are involved.
So all of us using this and know what we are doing have to enable it just because some people are to lazy to know the product they get before handing it over to a 5 year-old kid?
The iPhone and iPad is not meant for 5 years old, sure there is apps for them but i will say that a 5 year-old kid using an iPad should be under supervision of an adult.
Dont make it harder for the people there have a iphone or ipad for personal use, just because a family dad do not know better
$2500 in in-app purchases for free?
My god. I can't even imagine how many people are going to try and take advantage this.
Look, most banks have maximum withdraw limits for ATM's (eg, $500 per day). But there's no similar safeguards in place for the app-store?
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Great. Now tell me if you were new to the iPhone/iPad and ecosystem you would know how all that works. Or that they would NEED to look something up. After all - "it just works" right?
Give me a break. It's easy to find something when you know you have to go looking for it.
As stated, there's Parental Controls... that toggle is there for a reason, and I don't get why people don't enable it.
Don't use a credit card. Use only iTunes cards and renew when needed. Problem solved.
A bit cheeky? Don't be ridiculous, it's both wrong and completely DECEPTIVE, and Apple is VERY MUCH to blame for allowing such Third Party apps to create such astronomically priced 'add ons' for games targeted at children. These companies that design these apps ARE WELL AWARE of their intended deception because they hope most parents won't do anything. Apple is to blame as is the company who makes the stupid app.
wow... $$$ in 15 minutes... must be one heck of an app.
Don't you think any bells would have gone off saying "Why am i giving this to someone else to type in a password?"
I can see after 3 or four purchases, but $2550 worth ? how many purchases would that be exactly ?
I bet he didn't even know how much he was spending .......
Please don't defend ignorant consumer behavior.....you're spending $500+ on a piece of technology, you should at least have some idea of how it works.....either by asking the retail salesperson or researching it online.....
Apple's slogan isn't an excuse for irresponsible behavior.
It's not society's fault, it's not Apple's fault, it's the Parents fault.
For F***s sake... Parents need to take responsibility for their children's actions. Especially a 5 Year-old's actions.
they're defending a multibillion dollar company that's involved in scamming 'the people'..
Wow! Yes, it's all the evil corporations' that are always at fault, always.
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