"The Smurfs' Village", a game for the iPhone and other Apple products, was released a month aago and became the highest-grossing application in the iTunes store; but its free to download. Kelly Rummelhart of Gridley, Calif., stated that her 4-year-old son was playing on her iPad and racked up $66.88 in charges on her credit card without knowing what he was doing. Rummelhart had no idea that is was possible to buy things with real money inside the game. Apple introduced "in-app purchases" last year, which let developers use the iTunes billing system to sell items and add-ons in their games and applications. When the publishing company of the game "The Smurfs' Village", says purchases by children are "lamentable". When it realized what was happening, it added a warning about the in-app purchases to the game's description in the App Store, and it's updating the game to include warnings inside it as well.
If I was one of the parents who had a child spend this much money on app purchases without them actually being aware of it, I would be mad at the game too. And also the fact that the purchases are like, $60 for something that helps you in a game. It should be at most $5. Atleast the app is trying to warn parents and hopefully their children about the purchases.
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