In 2020, Google strengthened its payment policy to specify that all digital purchases must use Google Play billingand therefore charge developers a commission for each digital purchase or subscription made, but Google has given a deadline for apps to adapt to Google Play’s new policy, a deadline that ends on June 1.
Starting June 1, Google can remove any app that doesn’t use Google Play billing. To prevent this, companies such as Amazon what they did is remove in-app purchases from your apps.
Amazon Music, Kindle and Audible remove in-app purchases
Over the past few days, Amazon has updated in google play requests for Amazon Music, To light up there Audible to remove in-app purchases, which means that from now on users will not be able to purchase new content from Android apps. Until now, Amazon used its own billing system that ignored Google commissions, which is no longer allowed as of now.
Now for example, Amazon Kindle for Android it only allows us to add that e-book we want to buy to the list so that we can make the purchase from web browser. Amazon apps notify users that they have removed digital purchases for Comply with Google Play Store policies.
At the moment, in Audible, we can subscribe to its service through Google Play, but we can no longer buy individual audiobooks from the app. Subscription commission is lower for digital purchases.
This change only affects apps downloaded from the Play Store. If we download the Amazon Music, Kindle and Audible applications from the Amazon AppStore, we will be able to buy their digital content from Android without having to resort to the web browser.
It is possible that in-app purchases will return to Amazon apps in the future when Google allows them to officially add the alternative payment system they are currently testing with Spotify, in which the app allows users to pay with Google Play or with the developer payments system.
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