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by wil421 4570 days ago
Nice this is awesome I dabbled in iOS dev one summer but my simple apps looked horrible. If you can find something that targets children the parents will buy. When I worked in a restaurant you wont believe how many parents would just give the kid an iPad/iPhone so they would calm down, worked immediately.

Kudos for making an app that actually has the kids learning instead of some trippy cartoon to watch.

2.99 is a good price to pay for a decent app any more and I probably would look for something else, the days of .99 across the board are long gone.

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Seems like bad/lazy parenting, but hey.. good for our industry.
Let's say that you can't always play with your kids, so sometimes it's nice that they have some toys to play with...By the way, my kids are just around with friends and they are playing with.. Playmobil (whereas there 5 ipads available)
Yes some cases it was bad/lazy parenting. A few times I saw whole families that would each have their own tablet with minimal interaction with each other.

But those were extremes most families would take away the tablet during the meal or after. Kids tend to get crazy in anticipation of the food, the tablet calmed them.