Apple reportedly complies with Taipei's app refund request

You have to be so careful with you credit card when you travel to southeast asia, especially Taiwan, has anyone had any trouble with this? Two of my friends had their credit cards stolen this year.
http://www.creditcardassist.com/blog/taiwanese-raid-nets-15-suspects-in-credit-card-cloning-operation-10976

'Taipei' in the first sentence should presumably read 'Taiwan'. That way the correlative 'that country' at the end of the first sentence makes sense. (Taipei is the capital of Taiwan; it is actually politically controversial to refer to the whole country as Taipei because China (PRC), which denies Taiwan's existence, wants Taiwan to be known as 'Chinese Taipei'.)

I think they should have it everywhere, but for a shorter period of time - seven days is too long for a trial period (unless it's the Mac App Store, for things like FCPX). Or perhaps it could work like film rentals on the App Store - you trial it for free, get 30 days to start using it, and once you start using it you have 24 hours to play around with it. At the end of that time it asks "Thanks for trialling, would you like to purchase X now?" Just my opinion on how things should work. Trials would be free, whereas rentals (film rentals) cost.

I like the idea, but seven days is a long time, and as noted someone could buy a GPS app for a quick trip, then return it, which defeats the purpose. (I knew someone that would do a similar thing with physical things, which I disagreed with as well.) Give someone 24 hours max to determine if they want to return an app, that should be more than enough time to get it and try it out. I know when I get an app, I usually try it out soon afterwards.

This opens the door to free cracking of Apps. Now all you have to do is buy in Taiwan, release cracked copy, and then "give it back" to Apple and demand your refund. No questions asked!

Even if this isn't what most people would do, they could still do this: Buy, download, demand refund. But they get to keep their copy and it will continue to work from what I understand. I don't think Apple has a way to remove the App from the customers iPhone or iTunes after it has been "given back".

Great idea - let's have this everywhere, please. This would go someway to addressing the issue of demos and also allow you to get your money back when an application has been misrepresented or generally does not work.