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Amazon-owned ComiXology ditches in-app purchases on iOS and removes Google Play payments on Android
Apr26
Two short weeks after being acquired by Amazon, ComiXology has announced that it’ll be retiring its app, instead releasing a new, read-only version that forces customers to buy comic books through a website instead. On iOS, purchases are now gone, and the app asks you to visit the company website to purchase comics, but on Android, the company has simply removed Google Play payments and has added Paypal/Credit Card purchasing instead. The move is similar to how Amazon handles purchasing in its Kindle app — presumably to avoid both Apple and Google’s fees on purchases — but is likely to…
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A peculiar operation is underway in Alamogodoro, New Mexico: Microsoft has been digging up a landfill to find copies of Atari’s failed 1982 video game, E.T. to see if the rumored dumping of games there in 1983 really occurred. Picture via Brian Kieffer The company has finally struck gold and has actually found them too, presumably after weeks of hunting for them. The public were invited to the dig today and shared pictures of the finds, packaging and all, on Twitter, finally confirming the myth. Picture via Chris Kohler Picture via Taylor Hatmaker The dig is part of a documentary funded by Microsoft and looks…
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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Among the many ways to stand out on social media—killer content, amazing visuals, specific formatting, and more—one that often gets overlooked is voice. We don’t want brands talking at us as if we are dollar signs. We want authentic communication. Finding a voice for your social media marketingcan be difficult because the concept is somewhat unlike other optimization strategies online. Voice is not a statistic you can track or a design element you can tweak. Voice goes deeper than that. Instead of tracking and analyzing, you can plan and practice. Here’s what I’ve found works best in terms of getting…
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Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive has been charting the Web’s evolution since 1996. Anyone wishing to return to the Yahoo of the mid-1990s or the Google of the early noughties merely has to punch the desired URL into the wonderful Wayback Machine, and boom. There it is, in all its (former) glory. But the Internet Archive is much more than a visual public record of the Web of yore. It provides permanent storage of, and free public access to, collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and around three million books. Besides the gargantuan digital repository, however, Kahle was…
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