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| Kim and Kanye (Reuters) |
Like the hip-hop star, who recently dropped an F-bomb on Twitterover in-app purchases for kids' mobile video games, Holmes has been burned by her young child inadvertently racking up a bill on her tablet.
In Holmes's case, her then-four-year-old daughter was playing Angry Birds and clicked on over a dozen in-app purchase prompts to advance to new levels.
"Then I start receiving these emails on my device, 'Thanks for your purchase,' and I'm like, 'Oh my God, what purchase?"' recalls Holmes, an IT problem manager.
"I look and all of a sudden I've got this $80 bill for stuff that she's bought."
Holmes didn't realize that certain settings on the tablet allowed her daughter to make in-app purchases. She's since learned her lesson — one that West clearly just did as well, based on his recent tweet that started with an expletive and then derided "any game company that putsin-app purchases on kids games!!!"
"That makes no sense!!! We give the iPad to our child and every 5 minutes there's a new purchase!!!" West continued in another tweet.
"If a game is made for a 2 year old, just allow them to have fun and give the parents a break for Christ sake."
