Comment Re:Don't you have to enter your password? (Score 1) 279
Douchebags like that need to be humiliated (if that is even possible) into shame for total lack of parental skills.
I'm guessing that a lot of people who are calling this "bad parenting" dont have children themselves. I did not expect my 2 year old kid (he was 1 at the time) to find my iPad, figure out slide-to-unlock, reply to an email which through activesync on my phone was sent as an SMS to a friend, but he did.... since that incident I've enabled a lot of restrictions on the iPad.
I work on mobile platforms for a living and my kid wasn't even 2 years old when he did this... is it resonable to assume that a non-technical parent should understand that a game marked as "free" on appstore may actually cost you 100s, or even 1000s, of dollars, because there are berries or mushrooms or other junk in there priced at $100+??
Its not always that easy to be a parent, there are tons of things to watch out for and you would hope that companies arent trying to exploit every little mistake (if you can even call this a mistake, I think the lawsuit is valid and games where you can spend money should not be called free) to the max. Even with the restrictions the way they are now, not all kids understand they are spending real money when buying in-app berries and other junk, and not all parents realize that games that are marked as "free" are not really free.
Apple is exploiting kids here, yes Apple, they chose an appstore model where they are the "police", so they are responsible. I hope they loose, not because of the money but because I hope that it will result in a change where apps with in-app purchases are CLEARLY MARKED in appstore, so I as a parent have the option of never installing it... and no, I don't have that option today unless I read comments / review, and should I really have to rely on some random person adding a comment about in-app purchases? A warning/info message when the app is being installed would be more appropriate.