{"id":20359,"date":"2010-05-27T22:13:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=20359"},"modified":"2010-05-27T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:17:34","slug":"dont-let-your-kids-play-with-your-iphone-it-may-cost-you-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/dont-let-your-kids-play-with-your-iphone-it-may-cost-you-600\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Let Your Kids Play With Your iPhone, It May Cost You $600"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>? … Not so FREE<\/strong> anymore, eh? <\/p>\n

According to US news network @NBC, that’s exactly what happened to one father in Florida. <\/p>\n

The story goes that the man downloaded the FREE application Tap Fish for his child to play around with. With Tap Fish appearing to be FREE<\/strong> on face value, the man reportedly didn’t think anything of leaving his child alone with the app. Later on though, he would realise that was a pretty bad mistake.<\/p>\n

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You see, like most applications which now support iPhone OS 3.0 upwards, Tap Fish has in-app purchases and his child had gone all out, tapping, pressing and pushing, managing to rack up a whopping $600<\/strong> dollars worth of extra virtual fish add-ons.<\/p>\n

The man says his daughter purchased a significant number of additional fish via in-app purchases without realizing what was going on. The scenario is precisely what Apple had been trying to avoid when it originally didn\u2019t allow in-app purchases via free apps, but such purchases are now commonplace, although the dollar amount racked up in this case is extreme. The man says he intends to pay the bill, but no longer plans to allow his child to use his iPhone.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[via @BeatWeek] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free apps. Great aren’t they? Some of the best applications on the App Store to date sit at this instantly appealing price. <\/p>\n

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<\/a>? … Not so FREE<\/strong> anymore, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2127,16,17],"tags":[2981,4,2979,2984,12,2977,3501,346,2982,2983,495,2978,2980],"class_list":["post-20359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-games-app-store","category-iphone","category-ipod","tag-2981","tag-apple","tag-beat-week","tag-florida","tag-games","tag-in-app","tag-iphone","tag-ipod-touch","tag-kid","tag-man","tag-purchases","tag-tap-fish","tag-virtual-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20367,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20359\/revisions\/20367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}