Ondrej Holzman Apple agreed a year ago — after a class-action lawsuit it faced — that will compensate parents whose children have unknowingly spent on paid content in games. However, this was not enough for the American Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and with Apple, which did not want to engage in further lawsuits, it signed a new settlement agreement. According to her, the Californian company will pay over 32 million dollars (640 million crowns) to the injured users...
The two-year-long matter should now be definitively over. The signing of the agreement between Apple and the FTC ends a case in which Apple was accused of not adequately informing users (in this case, children in particular) that they were buying currency and points for real money inside apps and games.
According to new agreements Apple has to refund all the money to all affected customers, which is at least 32,5 million US dollars. At the same time, the company needs to change its policy on purchases in the App Store. The crucial point here is the 15-minute window after entering the password in the App Store, during which it is possible to buy additional content without having to enter the password again. Apple will now have to notify customers of this fact.
Executive director Tim Cook commented on the whole situation in an internal e-mail to Apple employees, who, although he is not very satisfied with the FTC's activity, said that Apple had no choice but to agree to the agreement. "It does not seem right to me that the FTC is reopening a case that has already been closed," Cook wrote in the letter, which was obtained by the server Re / code. In the end, however, Cook agreed to a settlement with the FTC because it doesn't mean much for Apple.
"The settlement proposed by the FTC does not force us to do anything we did not already plan to do, so we decided to accept it rather than undergo another lengthy and distracting legal battle," Cook said.
The Federal Trade Commission commented on its decision by saying that the order is stronger than the original settlement in the class action, which did not force Apple to change its behavior. The agreement with the FTC also does not specify the exact amount that Apple will compensate users, whereas the original agreement did.
I have a question, I don't work with android at all, but if I download an application that is available on both iOS and droid, and if it contains inapp purchases on iOS, does it not on droid? or did they have it modified in some way from the beginning or is it just not talked about on the droid? And continue to draw love from children through inapp purchases?