[inthewoods]

Exactly - I'm actually considering going to the Kindle because it supposedly has a mode where you can determine what your children have access to.

[evilduck]

I don't know if that will help. You can already lock down iOS pretty tightly for kids. It's the apps themselves that are the problem.

There's just a huge, annoying trend of making apps crippled or annoyware until you buy some ridiculous IAP. AFAIK, that situation is not much different on Kindle/Android.