App Store Password Caching

Manton Reece, on how Mike Rohde got stuck with $190 worth of unintended in-app purchases:

It is fairly well known that after the App Store prompts for your iTunes password, you can download more apps for a certain length of time (at least a few minutes) before it requires a password again. What seemed less clear is that this applies to in-app purchases as well.

★ Monday, 12 July 2010