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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: smart plugs???
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:36:08 +0100
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On 2025-01-17 10:14, D wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 2025-01-16, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-16 10:33, Mike Scott wrote:
>>>> On 15/01/2025 20:31, Pancho wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> And the problem there is my phone and hudl are ancient so tp-link's 
>>>> code
>>>> won't install - and when I try to install it on my wife's phone, it
>>>> wants me to enable in-app purchases. WHY? It's totally unnecessary. All
>>>> I want to do is set up a device I've already purchased. (And it's not
>>>> going to happen: I avoid in-app purchase software like the plague, and
>>>> I'm not about to set up something like that on a borrowed phone 
>>>> anyway.)
>>>
>>> It is just a permission on this single app, you don't have to buy
>>> anything. It will not buy anything for you on your back. In any case,
>>> you have to actually approve the purchase (and have a banking account
>>> registered with Google).
>>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> That's a deal-breaker right there.
> 
> WTF?! Since when did that ever become a criterion? Sounds like some kind 
> of business manager should be gently removed from his job for making 
> that a requirement.

Maybe you are misunderstanding. Let me rewrite:

In any case,you have to actually approve the purchase (and have a 
banking account registered with Google) in order to actually do a purchase.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.