The Skylanders Cloud Patrol game is coming soon to the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD with exciting new functionality that will forever change the nonchalant manner we hand our tablet devices off to our bored children. Exclusive to the Kindle Fire version: in-app physical toy purchases.
This is brilliant, in an evil sort of way. Itās the sort of functionality the creators of childrenās cartoons have been trying to figure out for decades ā how can we make it easier for the children weāve enthralled to spend money on merchandise? If Saturday morning cartoons had a buy button on-screen when I was a kid, my parents would have set the television set on fire. Luckily Amazonās new Kindles are already on Fire (sorry).
As you read this, toy company executives around the globe are staring at the screen, muttering āWait, we can do this?ā
Iām sure there will be controls in place to ensure children donāt devour their parentsā credit cards ordering colorful pieces of plastic. Thankfully children are innocent and pure and would never dream of hitting the buy button all day long once they figured out their parentsā password was their birth date backwards.
In closing, be sure you turn off 1-click purchasing before that $.99 app purchase turns into regular shipments of mystery toys at the hands of tiny terrors.
