wraggster
March 16th, 2011, 22:42
Apple Inc. has changed how purchases inside iPhone and iPad games are authorized after customers complained that their kids were racking up hundreds of dollars worth of charges (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110316/ap_on_re_us/us_tec_techbit_apple_in_app_purchases). The issue was that after a user entered his or her iTunes password on a device, the device didn't prompt for the password again for 15 minutes. Any purchases, whether in the iTunes store or inside kid-friendly games such as 'The Smurf's Village,' went through without a new password prompt. This meant that parents who handed over their iPhones or iPads to their kids were sometimes shocked by large purchases of 'Smurfberries' and other virtual bling."http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/03/16/2016209/Apple-Moves-To-Stop-Kids-Racking-Up-iTunes-Bills