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Apple Updates App Store Review Guidelines to Allow Streaming Game Services That Submit Each Game to the App Store [Updated]
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Would a browser be powerful enough to handle input and gaming through a controller? Interesting workaround though.
To take your analogy one step forward, Netflix is actually more interactive than simple start/stop/rewind because of the Black Mirror episode of Bandersnatch which is a choose your own adventure type movie-game hybrid.
...did you read the article? It literally is about Apple loosening up the guidelines in certain areas.
It's what we're literally trying to do here, why can Netflix have an app unimpeded that streams all its content but xCloud and Stadia can't?
There isn't one and Apple doesn't want to admit it.
Also a more cheeky response to your question:
Watch Minecraft: Story Mode | Netflix
Take control of an adventure set in the Minecraft universe. The future of the world is at stake, and your decisions shape the story -- so choose wisely!
They are doing this with games and not with Netflix because they know games have DLC and micro transactions and they want their 30% on EVERYTHING!
Netflix charges you a monthly fee and that’s it. You can’t pay $15 mid movie to enhance your experience.
Game streaming is different. It would allow people to catalog a bunch of games they can play on their phone, not looked at by Apple. Games can have in-app purchases for digital goods that require no effort from the developer, v-bucks in Fortnite for example. That means games like Fortnite could make billions from Apple customers without paying a cent to Apple for hosting, or access to the very customer based Apple built.
People need to realize that Apple does this to be fair to every developer. Is Microsoft trustworthy? 100%. Does Microsoft have the correct security in place to not have xCloud get hacked? 100%
However, I do not. Therefore, if I want to create a game streaming app like xCloud, and 4 months from now my servers get hacked to serve adult material, that would be very bad news for Apple.
However, I do not. Therefore, if I want to create a game streaming app like xCloud, and 4 months from now my servers get hacked to serve adult material, that would be very bad news for Apple.
That won't work, apple would consider that a "reader" app and only certain categories like Spotify and Netflix get to build apps that are useless without an account.
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I can do that right now on Amazon video, I can go buy and rent movies to my hearts content, pay Amazon directly in the app completely bypassing Apple all the while. So I don't get this argument.
Creating a game streaming service is an exercise in insane physical infrastructure and licensing deals, nobody can you just pop up and start one out of the blue without some trust and equity built already.
Need anymore straw for your strawman?
It could also prompt for user input, which could be predatory behavior if something malicious slips through.
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Just like how Sony stored account's password in plain text? How large companies have gotten hacked before too?
there is, just buy a cheap android phone and use it with stadia, xcloud, geforce now etc,
How is it strawman? Apple was just criticized that they make special deals. This is to keep them in line for ALL developers, from indie to Microsoft to follow the same rules.
If you are afraid to go out into the world and worried about your security. Get yourself a bunker, and don't penalize the rest of us who want options.
And in that situation it's Sony fault through and through.
No one in their right mind, would blame Apple for Sony getting hacked, hell there's PS4 Remote Play on the App Store right now. If I'm remote playing my PS4 on my iPhone right this second I could my account hacked, Apple won't care because it has nothing to do with them, why would they suddenly care now?
See also: Shadow PC or literally the hundreds of Remote Desktop apps on the app store.
Uhhh yes I am concerned about my security and safety? I have guns, I lock my doors, I wear my seatbelt, I use Apple Pay instead of my credit card as my credit cards have been stolen before.
People needed third party apps and Apple to implement screen time instead of actually parenting. If a kid were to play games I release on a streaming platform, then it got hacked, things would be very bad.
Very bad for you, not Apple.
If YouTube gets hacked right now and every video turned to Porn would it be Apple's fault because you have a YouTube app on your phone? No, it would be Google, the person operating the service.
You’re just streaming. Pausing, fast forwarding, etc are conceptually and technically very similar to the interactions of a streamed game.
People will approach Apple about it yes, to get the app pulled down immediately.
I don’t have a particularly strong view one way or the other on the changes, etc. But, the comparison to Netflix is questionable, I think. Streaming video doesn’t pose nearly the risks to device security that games executing code on device do. Unless the Microsoft streaming games are being executed entirely off device and only rendering on the device, it’s consistent with Apple’s security posture to want to review the code.
No, you pause, fast forward and other actions on a BUFFER - local cache of the video/audio. This is why when you fast forward past the buffer, you need to wait some time as it needs to pull down a new buffer.