Apple Legalese
I just emailed myself the revised iTunes Store Terms & Conditions since my iPod prompted me to agree to it while I was downloading an app. It contains these extremely dehydrated (and dessicated?) documents:
- iTunes Store Terms of Sale
- iTunes Store Terms of Service
- iTunes Store Gift Certificate, iTunes Cards, Content Codes and Allowances Terms and Conditions
- App Store Terms and Conditions
- Licensed Application End User License Agreement
Well, it’s so bloody long Gmail clips the email.. it’s 19136 words. Yes, nineteen thousand words. Oh my goodness. And I haven’t counted the Apple Customer Privacy Policy which is #include’d by some part of it.. I don’t want to event think about reading those nineteen thousand words, page by unscrollable page, on 3.5”.. doing it on 15.4” is sufficiently painful.
There’s one bit which is rather important though:
13. 1-CLICK®. 1-Click is a registered service mark of Amazon.com, Inc., used under license. All App Store transactions use 1-Click, a convenient feature that allows you to license Products from the Service with a single click of your mouse or other input device. When accessing the Service on your iPod or iPhone, 1-Click is activated for each transaction by pressing the button showing the price of the product, which reveals the “Install” or “Buy” button. When accessing the Service on your computer, clicking the “Buy” or “Get” button will start the download immediately and complete your transaction without any further steps. Transactions using 1-Click are subject to these Terms and Conditions, including the Refund Policy set forth herein.
This is for the App Store; it’s also been changed for the iTunes Store but it’s even lengthier there. On iTunes 9, there is no Shopping Cart, so make sure 1-Click is turned off. You have to reset warnings to make it ask “Are you sure you want to buy and download…?” instead of charging you directly.
