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Amazon is angry: you can no longer buy books for your Kindle from Android

Until now, it has been a routine that millions of users have carried out in a completely natural way: they have accessed their apps from Kindle, Amazon Music, or Audible and have purchased books, music and audiobooks paying with a bank card stored in your account with those of Jeff Bezos. What yes? Well, the time has come for you to forget about it because for a few hours, that possibility has completely disappeared.

Amazon gets angry with Google

It was before the deadline of June 1, 2022 arrived when the community that uses Amazon services anxiously wondered how Americans were going to act before the entry into force of the new in-app purchase policies and that, compulsorily, they had to be made from that date with a payment method registered in the Google Play Store. A measure that nobody liked and that comes to equate ecosystems such as Apple with Android, where the owner of the OS receives a percentage of each sale that takes place within the device.

Amazon, in this situation, has decided to cut to the chase and what he has done seems a bit radical, but surely it was the only alternative he had left to avoid having to jump through Google’s hoop and that obligation to force his customers to pay only through a bank card registered in the store official. Hence all the official Android apps for Kindle, Amazon Music and Audible have removed the button to buy nothing inside.

From now on, every time you want to buy a new book for your Kindle, sign up for the Unlimited or Amazon Music subscription and, of course, buy credits and audiobooks, you will have to go to the official website of each of these services and complete the purchase from there. Without the interference of Google and the official Android store and with the payment system that you want.

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Precisely, this obligation to pay with a bank card or any other method accepted in the official iOS and (now) Android stores has caused real wars between the technological giants in recent years, which in some cases they wanted to get rid of going through the box and give a percentage of their income to the owners of each ecosystem, and on the other they have fought to maintain control under the excuse of doing so in the name of user security.

Cases like those of Fortnite on iOS, which led Epic Games to request that they allow users to offer other ways of purchasing away from the App Store, they continue to be the workhorse of all the companies that have a good part of their business in mobile phones and they don’t want to give away a significant percentage of their income to a third party who, in their opinion, does nothing.

Now, Amazon responds to Google in its intention to turn Android into something that they always told us it would not be: a closed field where only the rules imposed by the owner of the beach bar apply. In this case, the Mountain View-based company seems to remain committed to iPhonize its ecosystem and this refusal to use payment methods other than those registered in its Play Store is another step in that direction.

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