And what happens to me, as a web/android user if Viz goes out of business/takes down it’s website? I’m still out of luck on manga I’ve purchased, because they won’t let me d/l it because they think I’ll post it somewhere else. It’s bad business besides being just plain wrong.

The online platform for non-iOS users is limited in scope, yes, but I would never expect Viz to allow readers a downloadable content – giving someone a professionally translated pack of manga images on a PC where file manipulation is rampant and easy just seems like a losing bet when some 2-bit wanker can just get on the web and upload it to a scanlation site.

It isn’t “fair” in the sense that iOS users can download their content, but iOS doesn’t have a way to easily pirate these images onto the web from an iWhatever. I think it is a matter of feasibility in that regard. Is it the best? No. But Viz has delivered the service to a platform rife with the problems they have to fight as an industry in order to survive.

Equally and I could be talking out of my glutimus maximus here, they may have some form of ongoing contractual requirement that they continue to provide “premium” content for the iOS.