Amazon Music purchases have also been shut down on the Google Play app. The move brings Amazon’s Google Play app in line with the iOS app, which also doesn’t allow digital purchases. On Android, Amazon is pushing users to the website, where they can still buy digital content or sign up for an unlimited subscription, which avoids the Play Store purchase lockdown.
Google Play billing takes a percentage of in-app purchases (usually 30 percent, though media can be as low as 10 percent), and several big companies have responded to the rule change by removing purchases from their Android apps. Epic Games is dragging Google back to court over the issue, while Barnes & Noble ended up disabling digital purchases on its own Android hardware. Companies not using Google Play for in-app purchases have technically been blocked from issuing app updates since March 31, and on June 1, apps using non-approved billing will be removed from the Play Store.