Developers respond to FTC inquiry on in-app purchases

25.02.2011

The FTC, which has jurisdiction over unfair and deceptive commercial practices, declined to comment directly on the inquiry.

Recharge Studios's Creque suggested the inquiry was a challenge to be expected when a new marketplace emerges from scratch, as the App Store has in recent years. "In any emerging marketplace and ecosystem, there will be issues," he said. "We want to make these profits in the right way."