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Re: Family Sharing problem

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On 22 Jul 2020 at 16:44:50 BST, "Graham J" <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:

> nospam wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> No it's not.  It's something already bought.  

Even Sony, who are continuously Bad At Computers, manage to get this mostly
right with their Playstation Store. Things you've already bought are marked
"owned" in the catalogue, and you can't buy them a second time. (Their shop
catalogue handling is otherwise diabolical, this is their one high spot)

It is certainly not beyond the wit of Apple to Sort That Shit Out. Even if it
has to be behind an extra authentication for privacy-between-AppleID reasons.

	Cheers - Jaimie
-- 
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.  
It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four
rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing 
extraordinary about him.   -- P J O'Rourke

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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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