The biggest complaint we see from users of iVerse Digital Comics is that each comic is sold as an individual application on both the Apple and Google’s platforms.
There are many reasons for selling the comics as individual apps. When it comes to Apple, their approval process is strict, and impossible to predict. If we were to create one application that had all the comics in it – and Apple were to decide that one of those comics we released as “offensive” in some way…BOOM – No more iVerse Comics on iPhone.
Apple could pull the plug and leave us completely out of business.
As you can imagine- we’d really like to avoid that.
On the Google Android side of things, Google doesn’t allow a “store within a store” approach to their Marketplace. So we can’t build an application and then sell comics in it, effectively cutting them out of the loop.
So what’s the solution?
Well, on Google Android the solution is called the “iVerse Comic Collector”.
Each comic on Android can be saved to an SD Card. Once you have saved it, you can delete the original file, and view ALL of your saved comics in the Comic Collector Application. This saves users space on their G1s, and allows for all comics to be collected into one application, while still following the guidelines laid out by the store owners.
Hopefully we’ll be able to devise a way to do this on the iPhone as well in the near future – but Apple’s restrictions to what we can and can’t do on the iPhone are making that rather difficult. We’re working on it…and we’ll keep you updated.
If you have an Android powered phone, please let us know what you think of the Collector App, and what we can do to make it better. We’re always looking to improve your user experience, and greatly appreciate your feedback.
Not sure this argument holds now that apple has accepted amazon’s kindel and the thousands of books that go with it. I’m sure many would/could be considered offensive depending on the audience.
I’m another voice in the camp of not liking each comic as a single application. It clutters the iphone/itouch too quick and managing them individually defeats the convenience of the device. The kindel appears as a single application with books as a listing once your inside. Would really love to see this structure adopted to the iverse reader with even further divisions of publisher, title etc. This drilling down is a fairly natural progression when looking for any item whether it’s a book, CD, DVD, etc ..
I would urge iverse to move towards ‘one app to bind them all’ for the comic world before someone else does ..
I downloaded the app comic collector on my android device and find it well done and organice
I understand the reason for the G1 24-hour wait to transfer to SD card, but still wish there was some method to download straight to SD. With all the apps I’m running (several tools, TeleNav, RSS readers) I generally have about 6M free so loading a comic is a one-a-day affair (and some I have to delete/later re-install one of my running apps!)
Like I said, I understand the issue but wonder if there is a method (encryption?) that would make it easier to builld my library… So many new comics this morning! I’ll buy them alll but it’ll take me 2 weeks! LOL!!!!
Ok. I noticed a big problem w/ the whole process. Iverse collector is supposed to free our phone from memory used up by the comics application. It certainly does it’s job by storing the comics to SD card. The big issue is w/ uninstalling of the original download which is supposed to free back the used memory. Unfortunately, this is not the case. When I uninstalled the original document, it did not release the used up memory. I tried it w/ two comics with the same observation. I also tried to reinstall the same comics hoping that it will use the previously unreleased memory (kind of on-hold thing) but instead, it used up another space. I also tried uninstalling other programs in the Market (not Iverse) for comparison and they are uninstalling just fine, freeing the used memory. I wonder if this is something unique w/ Iverse comics. Anybody has a clue what’s going on in here? Now my G1 is almost out of memory and I may end up doing a factory reset if this remained unresolved…
@JDC
I’m not sure why the collector app is being blamed for this. That is a known bug in Android at the moment. Not something we at iVerse Comics can fix within our app.
See the gory details of the bug at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1854
The recommendation is to reboot your phone to regain the lost storage / memory.
@JCD & Michael,
Rebooting doesn’t free the memory. But it’s still a simple fix. You have to pull the battery. Once you put it back and turn it on, the memory is free. I’ve done it several times and it works great.
I’m having a separate problem though. The collector gives me errors sometimes when I back up a file to the SD card and then remove/uninstall the original. It seems random, but I know there must be something that is causing this (the method of uninstall perhaps? via the app store vs using the app manager? or perhaps something different altogether?) All I know is that the file is still there on my SD card, but the collector fails to read it…
"PROOF" is one of my favs and here’s what happened:
I backed it up and it showed a photo and "Proof #1" in the collector. It worked right after I backed it up and uninstalled the original. I went about doing other stuff on my phone and returned to the comic later to find this:
A "no" symbol (red circle with slash) and the file name "Proof-1.cb" then an error of "ERROR:Unable to read bundle: Invalid type <14375> at offset <6368936>
Any help or advice you can give? I want to purchase the "Proof" series, but this is preventing me from moving forward.