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Re: Family Sharing problem

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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.  If I buy you a beer in a 
pub the bartender doesn't also ask you to pay for it and only charge 
nothing after you've proved that I've already paid for it.

So asking "do you authorise this purchase?" is meaningless in the 
context, and looks like an attempt at fraud.

It's no wonder that real people have such difficulty with using computers.


-- 
Graham J

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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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