VietNamNet Bridge – Under the mask of free services, mobile
phone applications have been trying to pick the Vietnamese users’ pocket
through different ways that users do not know.
Tien, a Hanoian, who has
purchased an iPhone, some days ago--yesterday, brought the smart phone to a
shop to have some software pieces installed. An officer of the shop advised him
to set up some free apps which he said would be very useful to smart phone
users.
Tien agreed on the installation
after he was convinced that he would have to pay 200,000 dong for the
installation fee to the shop in order to obtain the package of 100 copyrighted
apps, and all of them are free of charge.
“Later, I found out that only
several out of the 100 free apps are useful to me. Meanwhile, the others are
all games or obscene funny stories,” Tien said.
He decided to come back to the
shop, requesting to install the software pieces as ordered. However, he was
told that these were not available.
“Even if I wanted to upgrade the
software pieces installed before, I would have to pay a fee to the shop,” he
complained.
A lot of complaints about free
apps have appeared on information technology forums. A member wrote that he was
so foolish when thinking that he would be able to use as many applications as
he wanted and did not have to pay fee.
“In fact, they have their ways to
charge users, especially for entertainment apps,” he wrote.
“You just could play the games
for some minutes, and you would see a window which requests you to pay for the
app, or the app would be stopped,” a user commented on Android Market.
He said that users may have to
spend up to millions of dong for the free apps.
In many cases, the software
pieces may make users’ computer pending. If users do not click the “agree”
button, he would not be able to escape from the main screen.
“I got a lot of troubles with the
software like these and I had to bring my phone to the shop, where I had to pay
for the service of rescuing me from the troubles,” he said.
“I now keep away from the free
apps. I would rather to pay money for copyrighted software to feel secure with
my expensive phone. If you use legal software, you can foresee how much you
have to pay. Meanwhile, if you use free software, you would still have to pay
money, while you don’t know how much it would cost you,” he continued.
A member of Tinhte forum, said
though he downloaded some Vietnamese apps labeled as “free apps,” he still lost
15,000 dong from his account every time when he ran the apps.
After downloading the apps free
of charge, users would receive the messages which say they need to send
messages to some certain addresses to activate the apps. Of course, users would
have to pay for the messages.
Especially, the message sending
and receiving occurred without any warnings that users have to pay for the
apps.
In many cases, users have to pay
money for every time they use the apps. This means that they have to pay money
many times for the same apps. Meanwhile, the subscribers do not think that they
do not have any more duties to the service providers.
“Most of the free apps are
Vietnamese products,” he said.
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