Better than nothing I guess, but the warning really needs to be on the mobile store, and for greatest effect it should be on the modal pop-up for a password, i.e.
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Please enter your iTunes password
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WARNING: This app contains in-app purchases, and your current settings mean that the password will not be required again for another [#] minutes
Probably needs slimming down to fit on an iPhone screen, but something like that
Under the "Free" button it should say "sort of" in brackets
You nailed it. If an 'app' is nothing more than a 'place holder' for paid additions required to really use it and has little use as a stand alone it should perhaps even have a new name rather than 'app'. Maybe they should have to be called Paid Addition Programs or 'paps' to let people know.
How about putting a dark red box around it?! My stars. I standing ovate Apple's subtlety in design (the iCloud status page, for one), but this is something that shouldn't be.
Like their blue boxes that say "New" and their orange boxes that say "Coming soon" or "Beta", this should be a red box with white text.
Yes they are like being sold a car in the same flashy showroom as others are being sold. You get it delivered only to find the engine, seats, wheels all cost extra. You would expect the 'kit' car to be clearly labeled as such and even have a different description and clear warnings.
Sorry to be dumb, but isn't a password required for in-app purchases?
When you input your password to download an app it will stay an active password for a little while. The countdown on the password resets each time you download another app or make an IAP. In other words, if you sit at it all day buying IAPs directly after entering the password to download the app, you won't have to input the password again until you stop for a while.
I think.
Personally I believe that the App Store should have 3 columns, paid, IAP and free, instead of IAPs and free being in one.
I've not found many IAP games that are worth playing. They tend to be good for 30 minutes than you run out of something which hinders the game.
I don't do any IAPs that expire like coins, donuts etc. I don't mind an IAP to unlock a game or maybe to add levels.
How about putting a dark red box around it?! My stars. I standing ovate Apple's subtlety in design (the iCloud status page, for one), but this is something that shouldn't be.
Like their blue boxes that say "New" and their orange boxes that say "Coming soon" or "Beta", this should be a red box with white text.
A "dark red box" does zero for those of us that have red/green color blindness (name is a misnomer as we are not blind to color). See many articles on tis subject on the web.
A "dark red box" does zero for those of us that have red/green color blindness
What percentage of the population exhibits this condition? What percentage is enough to make it reasonable to ask everybody to change? What do you suggest as an equivalent alternative?
A "dark red box" does zero for those of us that have red/green color blindness (name is a misnomer as we are not blind to color). See many articles on tis subject on the web.
Oh, heavens, you know what I mean, yeah? Visual differentiation of some sort. You'd notice a yellow-brown box with white text rather than just light grey text on white, for example.
It's basically a heads up, an advanced warning, but it's worded to sound like a positive. When it fact it's a negative, as a lot of apps that require this are crippled, and some like magazine apps are unusable.
This is one of those things Apple got right to start with, then proceeded to screw up.
When the in-app purchase "feature" was announced, Apple only allowed it in paid apps, free apps couldn't do it.
That was the right way to handle it, Apple shouldn't do warnings, they need to go back to that model and prohibit all paid content in free apps. In-app purchases in free apps are NEVER a good thing, they lead to crappy, incomplete apps and a horrible user experience. If it says "free" then it needs to be free, no money-grubbing in-app purchases.
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I guess before that they preferred to have a few more 'Zombies'.
Better than nothing I guess, but the warning really needs to be on the mobile store, and for greatest effect it should be on the modal pop-up for a password, i.e.
Quote:
Please enter your iTunes password
[ ]
WARNING: This app contains in-app purchases, and your current settings mean that the password will not be required again for another [#] minutes
Probably needs slimming down to fit on an iPhone screen, but something like that
You nailed it. If an 'app' is nothing more than a 'place holder' for paid additions required to really use it and has little use as a stand alone it should perhaps even have a new name rather than 'app'. Maybe they should have to be called Paid Addition Programs or 'paps' to let people know.
Yes they are like being sold a car in the same flashy showroom as others are being sold. You get it delivered only to find the engine, seats, wheels all cost extra. You would expect the 'kit' car to be clearly labeled as such and even have a different description and clear warnings.
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Originally Posted by blackfrog
Sorry to be dumb, but isn't a password required for in-app purchases?
When you input your password to download an app it will stay an active password for a little while. The countdown on the password resets each time you download another app or make an IAP. In other words, if you sit at it all day buying IAPs directly after entering the password to download the app, you won't have to input the password again until you stop for a while.
I think.
Personally I believe that the App Store should have 3 columns, paid, IAP and free, instead of IAPs and free being in one.
I've not found many IAP games that are worth playing. They tend to be good for 30 minutes than you run out of something which hinders the game.
I don't do any IAPs that expire like coins, donuts etc. I don't mind an IAP to unlock a game or maybe to add levels.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
How about putting a dark red box around it?! My stars. I standing ovate Apple's subtlety in design (the iCloud status page, for one), but this is something that shouldn't be.
Like their blue boxes that say "New" and their orange boxes that say "Coming soon" or "Beta", this should be a red box with white text.
A "dark red box" does zero for those of us that have red/green color blindness (name is a misnomer as we are not blind to color). See many articles on tis subject on the web.
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Originally Posted by Damn_Its_Hot
A "dark red box" does zero for those of us that have red/green color blindness
What percentage of the population exhibits this condition? What percentage is enough to make it reasonable to ask everybody to change? What do you suggest as an equivalent alternative?
Originally Posted by Damn_Its_Hot
A "dark red box" does zero for those of us that have red/green color blindness (name is a misnomer as we are not blind to color). See many articles on tis subject on the web.
Oh, heavens, you know what I mean, yeah? Visual differentiation of some sort. You'd notice a yellow-brown box with white text rather than just light grey text on white, for example.
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
How should it be worded?
It's basically a heads up, an advanced warning, but it's worded to sound like a positive. When it fact it's a negative, as a lot of apps that require this are crippled, and some like magazine apps are unusable.
I use the term 'in the know' as like said it is not yet written like a warning,
When the in-app purchase "feature" was announced, Apple only allowed it in paid apps, free apps couldn't do it.
That was the right way to handle it, Apple shouldn't do warnings, they need to go back to that model and prohibit all paid content in free apps. In-app purchases in free apps are NEVER a good thing, they lead to crappy, incomplete apps and a horrible user experience. If it says "free" then it needs to be free, no money-grubbing in-app purchases.
I think this is where it went wrong: