Tag: Purchases

  • Don’t Let Your Kids Play With Your iPhone, It May Cost You $600

    Free apps. Great aren’t they? Some of the best applications on the App Store to date sit at this instantly appealing price. But what about when things go wrong? What if, for example, you left your iPhone and its seemingly “free” apps alone with your child … and came back to a $600 iTunes bill? … Not so FREE anymore, eh? (more…)

  • Users Buying iPhone Applications based on thier Icons? – [Briefly]

    We all know the iPhone is seen as a status symbol, or a highly desirable object, but in a recent growing trend, style might just be swaying the deciding factor of application purchases by App Store users.

    In a quite controversial trend, It seems users may be looking at the one thing which hits you first, when buying any application from the store – it’s icon. With recent threads popping up on numerous message boards over the internet, App Store users seem increasingly more conscious of how the application icon will look on their home screens, without actually weighing up the functionality of the application, first …

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