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While I feel like these companies could easily implement sensible daily spending limits to help combat this, parents could also do more to make sure their child
by tnel77 3y ago
While I feel like these companies could easily implement sensible daily spending limits to help combat this, parents could also do more to make sure their children aren’t charging their cards. I’m pretty sure Apple and Google both have systems in place where parent’s can approve all purchases.
- berkle4455 3y agoThis is 100% an Apple thing, and it sounds like the kid simply changed the password to override the iOS parental restrictions.
- shoo_pl 3y agoWell, yes its Apple thing, and they do have systems in place to prevent this, though I'd argue they are not very user friendly for non-tech savy people.
- viscountchocula 3y agoNot an apple user. What does "the 10-year-old had managed to change the password to allow payments" mean? What does one action have to do with the other?
- berkle4455 3y agoThe app payments go through the iOS mandated payment system. There are parental controls you can enable on a child’s device to restrict what can and cannot be purchased, notify the parent, etc. The kid just went around that and disabled those controls and/or figure out the parents unlock password. This is part of why Roblox, Microsoft, and Epic pay Apple 30% of platform transactions to handle things like this.
- frumper 3y agoExcept Apple denied the refund. That isn't handling it. I had heard Apple was good about refunding purchases like this though, so it was surprising to read that.
- berkle4455 3y agoYep. And this goes back to my initial comment that this an an Apple thing. It happened on their payment ecosystem.
- Neil44 3y agoI agree, reading between the lines I don't see any innocent parties here.
- em500 3y agoAs far as I understand from the article, the parent had some approvals/restrictions in place, but the kid circumvented by changing the password? The article is rather vague in describing what actually happened exactly.