A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children

Re:A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children by ArtB on Monday March 12, 2012 @12:14PM (#3694099)

Sorry how is that even remotely reasonably priced? It has a limited market, that can't buy their product, that is hard to make engaging and appropriate. Either be willing to pay $15 a pop, be willing to accept in product advertising, in product upselling, are really basic (ie non custom story book artwork), or that they shouldn't exist at all. Frankly, sounds like you are asking just too much.

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Re:A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children by Tooluka on Monday March 12, 2012 @04:48PM (#3695431)

15$ for quality product is ok. Chaptered games/applications (iWork etc.) are ok. ADs are not. IAPs are not.

This should be tattooed on every single iOS dev.

PS: I actually wish there would be at least few 30-60$ games in the store. And not those crappy ports of gamepad/mouse games (shooters etc.) with unplayable controls. Or some good, but very old, not so polished ports of ports of classic games (FFT). It would be nice to play some great western RPG, with interesting story (not that boring save the world stuff), it should be turn based to adjust to device controls, some good graphics (not like those Top games from store) - look up Bastion on the PC, THIS is how AAA iPad games should look like. And no sequels. Please.

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Re:A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children by Tooluka on Monday March 12, 2012 @05:26PM (#3695644)

Can't reply to the comment below. About "tattooed" word - this is usually called irony. And it is a common phrase about "remembering things", I don't see what's so bad about saying that.

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Re:A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children by signalsignal on Monday March 12, 2012 @05:23PM (#3695626)

Tattooed? Sorry, but this comes across as a rant.

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