FireMinstrel Posted December 8, 2014 Posted December 8, 2014 http://www.pcworld.com/article/2856272/google-to-begin-contacting-customers-about-inapp-refunds.html This is what happens when you shove your smartphone or tablet in a kid's face so "the grown-ups can talk". I just don't have the words...
Philosophiza Posted December 8, 2014 Posted December 8, 2014 blame the child for your choices. great idea, not 1
dsayers Posted December 8, 2014 Posted December 8, 2014 From a PR standpoint, I most certainly understand their position. Google is poised very well and this would be a minor way to keep that going. In a way, I'm kind of glad because this means less fuel for their parents to take out on their children. Though I'm sure most of them did so anyways. As much as I'd like to see responsibility accrue to the responsible, it's not like they'd learn to take responsibility from it. They'd just take it out on their kids more.
FireMinstrel Posted December 9, 2014 Author Posted December 9, 2014 True. I was reading a story about Apple giving similar refunds, and a family was interviewed. A little 5-year-old boy accidentally made $2500 worth of purchases. His siblings all yelled at him for something his parents neglected to check, and that he didn't know any better about(apparently hidden costs in a game that his father entered his password so the boy could download the game). The boy is also banned from the iPad, because I guess that's just easier than parents taking time to read things more carefully. He's even quoted as having "felt sad". Still...what do you expect now that smartphones and tablets are the new "binkies"?
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