![]() ![]() This feature removal isn’t going unnoticed reviews of the app have plummeted with the new version, with a cumulative 1.5 star rating across 1,129 reviews on the App Store as of this writing. ComiXology’s app used to be dependable as a one-stop shopping and consumption destination for digital comics, and the startup had managed to become the default destination for a range of publishers, including Marvel and DC. ![]() The real casualty resulting from this squabble over revenues is the user, however. The ecommerce giant clearly didn’t want to cough up the 30 percent Apple requires for purchases routed through its own store, and it doesn’t look like it’s any more willing to forego that cut with ComiXology, its newly-acquired company. This required the actual removal of the original app from the App Store, and the introduction of a new read-only viewer, with the store relocating entirely to the web.īack when Apple introduced a rule forbidding direct linking to outside stores, or use of ecommerce means beyond its own App Store mechanisms within apps, Amazon caved and removed the link to its own Kindle store, making it so users simply couldn’t buy books directly from its iOS software. Amazon has begun the Amazonification of recent acquisition ComiXology, by killing in-app purchases within the popular “Comics” by ComiXology app. ![]()
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