{"id":10159,"date":"2014-11-25T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10159"},"modified":"2014-11-25T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:08:42","slug":"app-store-changes-free-buttons-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/app-store-changes-free-buttons-to-get\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Changes &ldquo;Free&rdquo; Buttons to &ldquo;Get&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2014\/11\/19\/apple-replaces-free-button-with-get\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2014\/11\/19\/apple-replaces-free-button-with-get\/\"><p>It is not entirely clear why Apple has decided to replace Free with Get, but it may have to do with the growing sentiment that apps with in-app purchases are not free. Earlier this year, the European Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2014\/02\/27\/eu-in-app-purchases\/\">asked Apple and Google<\/a> to implement changes to the way they sell apps, to avoid misleading customers about &ldquo;free&rdquo; games that are not actually free.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/minutestomidnight.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/get-free\">Tim Schmitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/minutestomidnight.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/get-free\"><p>It doesn&rsquo;t differentiate between apps that are &ldquo;free with in-app purchases&rdquo; and apps that are just FREE. I think it&rsquo;s worth labeling apps that are free with no in-app purchases as such.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He and <a href=\"http:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2014\/11\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-get-lunch-or-app\/\">Jason Snell<\/a> don&rsquo;t like the &ldquo;GET&rdquo; label, but I&rsquo;m not in favor of using the iCloud download icon because it connotes that I have previously selected that item.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: It is not entirely clear why Apple has decided to replace Free with Get, but it may have to do with the growing sentiment that apps with in-app purchases are not free. Earlier this year, the European Commission asked Apple and Google to implement changes to the way they sell apps, to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,38,522,31],"class_list":["post-10159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10163,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions\/10163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}