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Apple Replaces 'Free' Purchase Button Labeling With 'Get' in App Store
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Get? Which new Apple bozo was sitting in a meeting and spewed out that word as a candidate?
Or 'ACQUIRE'? 'ACCUMULATE'? 'PICK UP'? 'CHOOSE'? 'COLLECT'? 'ACCRUE'?
Or for me: 'HORDE'...
No, because then it's poorly distinguished from apps you already "own" (eg are in your app library)
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Their lawyers probably did.
Probably the laziest solution Apple could have come up with. It doesn't even solve the actual problem at hand. Apple still lists, and thus promotes, apps as free even though they aren't actually free. An app that doesn't meaningfully work without in-app purchases is not a free app.
Apple has so poor double standards when it comes to user protection. They go great lengths to prevent developers from offering apps that are not following their perfect guidelines and are deemed to confuse consumers. But when they are asked to make reasonable changes to protect said consumers, they act dumb and let the PR department solve the rest ('we have good parental controls, so what's the problem?').
Apple has so poor double standards when it comes to user protection. They go great lengths to prevent developers from offering apps that are not following their perfect guidelines and are deemed to confuse consumers. But when they are asked to make reasonable changes to protect said consumers, they act dumb and let the PR department solve the rest ('we have good parental controls, so what's the problem?').
Yes, I agree. I'm sure that's what the European Commission meant as well.
Apple Replaces 'Free' Purchase Button Labeling With 'Get' in App Store
I DO NOT LIKE THAT WORD "GET" ITS LIKE "GET IT" or "GOT IT"
GET IT, GOT IT, GOOD!!!
We are not stupid people. We understand that there are in app purchases. We just don't want to have to "GET" something, Got It? "How about 'Freedom"?
We're American's we do Not need to follow European guide lines.!!!
WE NO "GET"!!! WE "FREE"DOM!!!
I DO NOT LIKE THAT WORD "GET" ITS LIKE "GET IT" or "GOT IT"
GET IT, GOT IT, GOOD!!!
We are not stupid people. We understand that there are in app purchases. We just don't want to have to "GET" something, Got It? "How about 'Freedom"?
We're American's we do Not need to follow European guide lines.!!!
WE NO "GET"!!! WE "FREE"DOM!!!
Get the hell up Apple. I think there should be legislation that mandates the App Stores to stick a warning in larger font that the app you're downloading is not actually free.
c.f. (Graphic!) warning picture printed on all cigarette boxes in Hong Kong
c.f. (Graphic!) warning picture printed on all cigarette boxes in Hong Kong
Still there for me. Perhaps a glitch?
By the way, that overview looks really odd now anyway. It mentions the price of paid apps, but for free apps it just says 'GET'. Using that word makes sense for a button, but not so much for a label. Free worked better in that context.
Why do you guys take things so literally? It took me less than a minute to find out that GET stands for Green Earth Technologies.
Free to play games have ruined the free app market (for me at least). I've completely stopped buying games on the App Store because it's overrun with garbage.
Agree 100% developers have gotten greedy. Let me just pay full price up front not charge in game nonstop
Ok, now the Featured app page shows the prices for the paid apps but not the "GET" text for the free apps. That looks better. They must have just been working on it when I looked earlier.