‘Just keep an eye on your kid’? Yeah, because children have never figured out how to slip anything past their parents.

It’s so easy to judge other people, isn’t it? I don’t care if this is super old. Calling someone a disgrace to humanity for making a foolish mistake and not having their eyes on their kid 24/7 is ridiculous. Tone down your arrogance a little. No parent is perfect.

hahahahahahahahahaha…….. Who in their right mind would TIE their finances to an account of the like of iTunes? Just press a button and withdraw/bill me? No thanks, life is hard enough.

This is why I don’t use Apple products.

At least the accountant knows what’s up.  
Supervise your kids, and use restrictions. That’s just good parenting.

@The Smiling Pony  
That game is designed for kids. What a parent should do? Either don’t let them play it, ora delete thei credit card details every time they’re allowed to play. Annoying.
 
And kids these days are smart, they can surf the App Store with no problems at all and download whatever they want.  
Once you could let them with the SNES, but today everything is connected and can be use to buy things.
 
I’m totally with K_A on this: it’s a design flaw. There should be some kind of lock of credit card usage for these kind of situations.  
The same thing apply for Android and any other system that can access to your credit card account.

@K_A  
An iPad with loaded financial details and restrictions off is the equivalent of leaving a credit card on top of a PC’s keyboard; no responsible parent does that. As much as I don’t like Apple or Gameloft, I can’t fault them over this.

Let me be a Devil’s advocate. If making a transaction in an iOS application is that simple–so much so that a child can do it without access to the parent’s credit card number or other credentials–then there is a legitimate design problem here. From my understanding, it is not that hard to “unlock” an iPad, so a malicious party could exploit that. And this is Apple, guys. I strongly doubt that in-app purchasing setting is well-publicized and was probably a legal afterthought.
 
It is easy to berate a parent for not “watching the kids” enough, but it seems people forget about giving “breathing room” and the huge undertaking of parenting (and likely working) even without a blindside punch like this. I concede you should always lock down anything a young child will be using, though. I remember back when VTech “precomputers” were sold for this purpose, but they cannot compare to something as child-friendly as a touchscreen.
 
BTW, It is disrespectful to Twilight Sparkle to have her figurine toppled over like that in the article photo.

@Muffinshire  
I know of the default 15 minutes…
 
@LostCause  
I thought so, I haven’t looked at the settings on my iPod for some time now.

@Turnways_Flip  
Stupid parents, not looking at the disclaimer/terms of service/anything to see that it’s only the app that is free and not the extra in game currency.

Just get rid of the ap. if it happens again.

@Prof.NightJack  
Yes, Settings -> general -> restrictions -> disable in-app purchases
 
It take exactly 10 sec to do. There is no excuse for this kind of incompetence. Seriously, this is like buying a car, immediately crash it and then start yelling “I DIDN’T KNOW THAT CAR HAS BRAKES!!111 HURRRDURR I WANT COMPENSATION CAR COMPANIES ARE SCAM”
 
I’m not a big fan of apple but it is wrong that they are forced to give refunds for cases like this.

HAHAHAHA
 
dumb parents

@Prof.NightJack  
You get a 15 minute “grace” period after inputting your password (necessary to download even free apps) during which you don’t need to re-enter it, but it’s only 15 minutes which makes the “half an hour” claim in the story a little fishy. You can set it demand the password for all in-app purchases with no grace period (or even disable in-app purchases altogether), but that’s not turned on by default.

Damages.
 
Are you serious.
 
Does Apple even receive the cash from third-party apps like this? Even ignoring the fact that it’s really as simple as making sure your child is not stupid enough to spend two thousand goddamned dollars on pixel ponies, why should they be liable for anything at all?

That woman is a disgrace to humanity. She should have to pay the full amount; instead, she’s gotten her 15 minutes of fame for being a lousy parent and “standing up to The Man”.

 
Breasts can be worth that much?

Don’t the i(anything) have a setting you can change to fix that problem?

HAHAHAHA
 
dumb kids

This kind of thing has happened before, but this is the first time the My Little Pony game was involved, isn’t it?

Stupid parents, kids shouldn’t be playing those kind of ga-
 
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