On Mar 31, 2012, at 7:14 PM, twenty pearls wrote:
As I said, the option to have it go both places isn't available with this app, and I'm sure its not available for ALL apps as this thread seems to suggest. I'm just pointing out one example where buying an app for one device in the apple family is not available to all apple products.I have both paid for versions for Words with Friends now - phone and ipad. If I wanted ads then certainly the free version was available...
Sharon,
Let me see if if I got this right. In your example you owned the iPhone version of Words with Friends prior to purchasing the iPad. When you received your iPad, you went the AppStore and proceeded to download the apps you previously purchased to the iPad.
On the iPad, when you searched for Words with Friends you would have been presented with a few versions of the game. On the top of the screen, you would have see the free and paid versions of the games for the iPad. On the bottom of the screen, you would have seen the iPhone versions of the games as well.
What it sounds like you are saying is that Words with Friends is not an Universal (no + symbol next to the name in the AppStore). Therefore owning the iPhone version did not provide you with the ownership of the iPad version.
This would be similar to my situation with the Fieldrunners game (see picture below).
In my example, I would have to pay $7.99 for the iPad version. The iPhone version could be installed without paying another red cent.
What I believe the people, that have responded to your posts, are trying to explain is that you could have downloaded the iPhone version again for free without paying for the iPad version. You would have had to hit the 2x button to have the app fill the iPad's screen. So the original post was correct in that it indicated that the previously purchased app could be found and installed to the iPad. I would guess that at the time you did your searching and downloading of Words with Friends, your screen may have not looked quite like my screen.
Apple made changes to the AppStore (I believe with iOS version 5.0) that made this experience better. Prior to the change, the picture above would have only showed the price next to both items. You would have had to click on price button and then on the "buy" button regardless of whether you owned the app or not. Only after doing that would the AppStore have informed you that "you already own" the app. This was a silly way to do it, especially for a software company.
Now Apple indicates next to the description that you already own the app by replacing the price with the word "install". So you could have installed the iPhone app and had an ad free version without incurring additional costs. The iPhone version would not have looked as good as the iPad version, but it would have worked.
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