Daniel Hruska Apple has changed the label for the app download button. We are all familiar with the button FREE has a new name GET. The change affected both the App Store for iOS and its counterpart on OS X. At first glance, this is a small cosmetic change, but after many years of the App Store's existence, the button suddenly looks unusual.
In July, Google announced that the word "free" will no longer refer to applications with In-App Purchases (purchases within the application). At the same time he exhorted European Commission, to pressure Apple with a similar solution. It was rare for Apple to have an inscription warning of these purchases immediately below the button FREE.
Apple pointed to the (then still in beta) iOS 8 Family Sharing feature. If the device is under parental control, the app download button has a label ASK TO BUY. This means that parents will first receive a notification about a purchase request on their device. The parent can allow or deny it, everything is fully under their control.
Apple also emphasized that it has an entire section in the App Store dedicated to children. He also promised his willingness to cooperate with the European Commission so that all parties are satisfied. So we already know the first result of the whole event. The free apps section continues to be named Free, however, a change can be expected here as well.
I was waiting for someone to write about it :-). Get is probably more realistic, but it's a habit anyway ;-).
Right, unfortunately I think all freemium should be banned or at least labeled as gambling and dealt with accordingly. It works on the same models and tries to extract money from people through addiction.
Mainly, there are also applications that look like slot machines... Or roulette apps, etc... And you pay in-app... It doesn't work on the same models, it IS the same. And accessible to children. And despite that, no one is solving it.
Well, they could also improve the service that looks so promising - family sharing. I was looking forward to it, but both daughters ended up cutting it off because they also had to apply for approval for free – or now get – applications. Which is really a bummer for teenagers who try every game for free :(
It's another incomplete thing from Apple and that there have been in recent years :(
Thus, parental protection should ideally include not only the financial part, but also the content part. A foreign parent should also pay attention to the content of the application, not only the price. Otherwise, in my opinion, Apple did not make a mistake.
This is not parental protection, but family sharing. Designed so that within the family, all family members can use all the purchased applications, music, etc. For one thing, the children can also be sixteen, or twenty, and um, so should I check what my wife is downloading? Apple made a big mistake ;)
I'm not sure I'll get used to it. I'll probably look for the nearest branch. But it can be seen that Apple tolerates even the smallest details, their software is already perfect, so they have time to devote to them.
Yes, Apple tolerates the smallest details, unfortunately only for them. Instead of fixing things that don't work and adding features that people want, he fixes a pixel here and there or changes one word to another with great fanfare.
And what specifically doesn't work?
quite a few things (compared to Apple x years ago)
Well, thank you for the comprehensive information...
iPad Air, iOS8 - you know, iBooks and other apps from Apple sometimes freeze for 2-5 seconds. On the iPhone 5S, the "no service" signal drops out in a moment, then the full signal again... All on the last SW update and after "restore". The shared spreadsheet on iCloud is able to be in 3 versions at once… unfortunately I have to open it and determine which one is valid only I as an administrator, others can't see it - and I only have a date available for decisions without a preview…. So next time I will use google doc.. And I could go on….. I started on iOS 5 and everything worked fine. Personally, we don't like Apple's direction at all from "here are the basic functions and they work perfectly" towards "it can do it all, but sometimes too much"
I'll just add, for those who didn't have to notice, that my opening contribution here was of course ironic. Above, my colleague wrote about iOS, I will add that OS X requires years of unsolved GUI lags on various Mac configurations and years of unsolved problems that are already pretty stinky - you need to dig up FATs on SD cards. After many years, I am considering whether Apple is still worth it for their prices today, because I keep seeing only the price, the quality is average.