Warning about Xbox Live iPhone App
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You may have read some communities promoting an Xbox Live app for your iPhone. The app seems really cool because you can easily see your gamerscore, achievement breakdown and see your friends’ cards. The app is also on sale for $1.99 which raised my suspicions.
I would like to use this to warn you to use caution and wait until we get official word from Microsoft about this app. I have made some inquiries on the Xbox MVP boards to get more information. First the app is not sourced from the Xbox Community Developer Program where many trusted community apps are made.
Second, community apps are not supposed to charge for their use. So this app should be free and this person should not be making money off of it.
The largest question is where your login information is going. One of the reviews on the iPhone app page does say that if you have your credit card information on your Xbox 360, then the creator probably has access to that.
Until we get official word from Microsoft about this app, please use precaution and be careful about who you are giving your login information to.
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What mentality leads you to say that a developer shouldn’t charge for an iPhone app? So you want someone to spend their time developing an app but give it to you for free? C’mon.
If that’s the case then there shouldn’t be any premium apps OR any apps that are officially sanctioned by the original provider (eg: Twitter apps, AIM apps, et. al.)
It’s not me. That’s the standard policy from Microsoft.
Man, she took your shit apart.
“In August of 2008, Microsoft stated that all iPhone apps related to Xbox Live must be distributed free of charge. It remains to be seen if the company will enforce this pricing policy.”
I agree totally.
The app doesn’t need your email+password. The Developer only needs his account to scan a gamertag.
Or snatch it quick in case it gets removed. I’d imagine that if credit card info ever got used the paper trail would be pretty obvious. You techys know as well as I do what kinda call center trash already has access to your Cc info.
Recent word from MS camp is that an app that uses free information that is available for free on Xbox.com cannot charge for use. They also warn of being wary to letting any developer use your login info.
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