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Re: Family Sharing problem

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: Family Sharing problem
Date 2020-07-22 10:45 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <220720201045256912%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References <hnqegsF6h0iU1@mid.individual.net> <hnqleuF7usjU1@mid.individual.net> <hnr1cjF8grgU1@mid.individual.net>

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In article <hnr1cjF8grgU1@mid.individual.net>, TimH
<thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote:

> > Does it actually want her to pay for them? I'm the organiser so it's hard to
> > test but last time I did once you go to pay it'll say "Oh, that's free
> > because
> > another member of your family bought it" or words to that effect.
> 
> Yep, you're right. It's a pretty silly design though; you have to click
> through a dialog that says "do you authorise this purchase?" or words to that
> effect (definitely includes the word 'purchase'), *then* it tells you it's
> free.

it's still a purchase. the price just happens to be 0. the developer
could change its price to non-zero and other apps could change to be
free. they all go through the same codepath.

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Family Sharing problem TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-07-22 09:17 +0000
  Re: Family Sharing problem Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-22 11:15 +0000
    Re: Family Sharing problem TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-07-22 14:39 +0000
      Re: Family Sharing problem nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-22 10:45 -0400
        Re: Family Sharing problem Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2020-07-22 16:44 +0100
          Re: Family Sharing problem Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-22 15:50 +0000
            Re: Family Sharing problem nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-22 12:08 -0400
          Re: Family Sharing problem nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-22 12:08 -0400
            Re: Family Sharing problem TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2020-07-22 16:14 +0000
              Re: Family Sharing problem nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-22 12:26 -0400
                Re: Family Sharing problem Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2020-07-22 18:20 +0100

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