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The little man managed to order at least two boxes of pizza, various sweets, soft drinks, ice cream and other desserts.
Applications such as Uber Eats, Didi Food or Rappi dominate the current market for online food commerce.
Only within Google Play, there are just over 9 million applications.
At present, social networks and digital platforms have positioned themselves as the great bet of the new normality; However, they still have to face various problems, as demonstrated by a Twitter thread where it is narrated how a two-year-old boy bought thousands of Argentine pesos through food applications, opening the topic about a parental control problem within the apps that use real money.
Data provided by Google Play estimates that there are at least 9 million mobile applications on its server alone, while just over 2.5 million are registered in the App Store and only 700 thousand within the Windows ecosystem, of which at least a third have systems that use real money.
For its part, the research department of Statista Global Consumer Survey, I estimate that until the middle of last year, just over 68 percent of Internet users in Mexico used food applications over the Internet, figure that has fostered a growing number of delivery options, such as Uber Eats, DidiFood and Rappi, these being the most popular, or JOKR, iVoy and Veloz, with less audience but growing popularity.
Child spends thousands of pesos on food apps and generates debate about parental control
In the last hours, an intense digital conversation has been generated, due to the story narrated by a father, who warns that his two-year-old around 10,000 Argentine pesos had been spentwhich would be just over 10 thousand Mexican pesos, since an Argentine peso to change is around 1.41 Mexican pesos.
My son woke me up to the cry of PAPA MOTOOO, there were 3 deliveries at the door, the boy asked for 2 pizzas in the most expensive pizzeria, he asked for 1 ham and cheese pebete, 1 soda 0 because he is apparently taking care of himself and an ice cream almond faith refrigerator
spending $10,000
The spender 2 years
—Zeki (@xzeekii) January 6, 2023
However, it is within the conversation that it has been pointed out how the little one was able to place this order through mobile applications that use real money, Well, not only did a delivery man arrive, but there were at least three who came with orders to the little boy’s house.
For those who complain or criticize that my son watches cartoons on his cell phone to sleep, did his parents stick them to the TV to go to sleep in peace or do they think that the applause was the 4 o’clock mass?
—Zeki (@xzeekii) January 7, 2023
That is why various Internet users have pointed out the need to maintain control over the use of applications that use real money, since it is not the first time that cases of this nature have been registered, Well, previously it has been pointed out how children have made purchases through voice assistants such as Alexa, or spent hundreds of dollars on game upgrades, as certain accounts can be linked to parent’s bank accounts, and parents don’t realize what happened until the charge is generated.
Boy steals money, runs away and spends it on Fortnite and Free Fire https://t.co/qXaiORIxFD pic.twitter.com/JqVKDTci7L
– TierraGamer (@TierraGamer) June 3, 2019
It is worth mentioning that although various smart devices have security systems that allow you to block certain applications, there is a wide gap in terms of the content that can be accessed from a smartphoneTherefore, maintaining and improving parental systems in sensitive applications and content, as well as within apps that use real money, will be one of the main concerns for developers in the future.
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