Apple faces lawsuit over in-app purchases by children

What intelligent parent gives their child their iTunes password? Thats like giving a teenager your ATM PIN.... wonder what's going to happen....?

I definitely think it just makes sense to have it as an option to choose to set a second password for parental control reasons. The children shouldn't be allowed to have the freedom on itunes if they cannot be trusted or aren't of age to understand that it will charge their parents.

Keep tabs on your damn kids and make sure you can trust them. If not take the damn device away. I have three girls with three iPod touch with no such problems. Be a parent for god sake. Don't blame someone else.

Garen Meguerian! What a name, where in Mordor do you suppose he's from? All kidding aside, if I give my kid 600 bucks to go buy milk, I shouldn't be surprised that he comes home with a 200 dollar toy, should I? Who the hell gives their password to their kids? The case should be thrown out and Meguerian should receive a thousand dollar fine for negligence and stupidity. My son has had my old iPhone for over a year, and hasn't screwed me out of a single cent. Perhaps this is because I am intelligent. No, I'd think even one of less intelligence would be more careful...

Obviously this parent is to stupid to have an iPhone let alone an iKid someone call Child Protective Services, and ATT, replace both with an iRock and maybe in 5 years of taking care of it, he can have one back.

Some people are just stupid and looking for a quick buck. Give your kid your credit card and let them run their own accounts!

Frivolous. This should be thrown out and Meguerian should pay costs.

Ask your brilliant kid to teach you about Restrictions.

Change your password and read your emails from iTunes.

Grow up.

What he want is already available in iOS. Go to Settings > General > Restrictions. Turn off In App purchases, apply a pin code and save. If an adult wants to make a purchase, they can enter the pin code and turn the feature back on. Can even set it so they can't purchase apps in the store or delete them off the device.

My 4 year old niece loves the iPad. Whenever I go visit her, I change these settings to prevent accidents.

I think the real person doing the exploiting here are the developers of these apps. It's like Evony all over again. It looks good initially, but to really have the good time spend more and more money.

"Minors under 13 who have their parent's iTunes account can still make purchases without their parent's consent."

Please let me translate. Parents who are so ill equipped to deal with technology and set up a separate iTunes account for their children with no permissions or an allowance, who also then give their children the password and username of their own parental account beg the courts to disregard their lack of judgment and due care in raising their own children and pray the court provide relief for their stupidity and accept the equally stupid assertion it is the fault of Apple.

Really folks; this is just like blaming Ford when the kid takes the car keys you hand them and then drives the car away and causes havoc and incurs expense for you. You still had to give them the password. Why did you in the first place, and in what whacked world is it doing to be you give them one password, but not the secondary one? Why burden the rest of the intelligent society with needing to enter two passwords when it does not increase security.

I can link iTunes accounts for my kids and give them an allowance. What you need exists. What you suggest is broken.