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Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom?
jfruh writes The FTC has moved aggressively recently against companies that make it too easy for people — especially kids — to rack up huge charges on purchases within apps. But at a dicussion panel sponsored by free-market think tank TechFreedom, critics pushed back. Joshua Wright, an FTC commissioner who dissented in a recent settlement with Apple, says a 15-minute open purchase window produced "obvious and intuitive consumer benefits" and that the FTC "simply substituted its own judgment for a private firm's decision as to how to design a product to satisfy as many users as possible."
The 15 minute behavior has been documented for over 3 years. Additionally, every purchase requires confirmation. As I said, this is a parental failure. If you can't raise kids who can be trusted with a blank check, simply don't give them one. If you don't understand how the purchasing system works, don't use it, and certainly don't authorize your kid to do so.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Turn in your phone. You're obviously too stupid to be responsible for it.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
" I guess you don't really know the problem. "
The problem is baby-producers, who instead of being parents, depend on technology to babysit their offspring, and who substitute materiality for human interaction (here, kid, get this game and leave me alone). Well, that and they're too dumb to RTFM before handing over control of their bank account to those kids. That's OK. When they're old and feeble, the kids can practice what they've been taught by buying them a big-button remote, so they can drool alone in front of the TV, and the kids will only have to see them on holidays.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law