From the WTF Files

I saw this article and I could not believe it.

For those of you who don't wish to read it, let me explain.  Apparently, there is someone suing Apple, Inc. because they made it too easy for people (namely children) to make in-app purchases on an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, thus causing parents to have to fork over money for products they didn't want to waste their money on.  In fact, they wanted to waste their money or gift card or whatever on other things and when they looked and saw that their kid purchased every single upgrade for a game simply by clicking "buy now", they got upset.

My first question is, why are the parents continuing to allow such a thing?  Don't you think that once would be enough for the parent to tell the kid to "not make any in-app purchases."?  And if the kid continued to make the in-app purchases, don't you think it would have been smart of the parent to simply take away the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch privileges?  Simple.

But no.  This person that is suing Apple is suggesting that Apple is to blame for the parents not being more responsible for their children.  Not only is Apple now responsible for children spending their parent's money, but Apple then had to come up with a solution that forced people to put in a password TWICE in order to make an in-app purchase.  Like that will stop a child for very long.  Kids are smart these days, especially when it comes to technology.  Why doesn't this guy just drop the lawsuit and start being a parent.  It might actually work.



Until tomorrow.