Your poor children. They may never experience the excitement of computer games. Are they going to play Apple Arcade till college because you have to manage them via Apple Screen Time? I can only imagine how they will hate Apple after this experience.
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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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But why? It’s streaming content. Netflix, hbo, etc don’t have to submit each individual show and movie.
Yo Apple is out of their goddamn mind.
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Every time this conversation comes up and I see Apple do something just a little more screwed up, it baffles me the amount of hula hoops people jump through to defend them.
Greedy Apple is trying to hurt consumers. It's a worse experience to be forced to open up an app for every individual game that a person wants to stream. The argument that this helps apple review apps and keep the app store safe does not fly because if that were really true, apple would force netflix and hulu to have separate apps for each movie.
Just buy a Nintendo Switch and you don't even need to install fortnite. It's pre-installed ready to go.
Both are driving a morotvehicle to get yourself from place to place. Similar
Both are paying to see a movie or concert on screen one time. Similar
Both cover your head and keep the sun off your face. Similar
Both are forms of exercise that help you lose weight. Similar
Both consist of getting nitruents into your stomach and the rest of your body to keep you alive and healthy. Similar
Reading the book or listening to the audio book. At the end you know all about the book all the same. Similar
Both are using your internet to experience visual content on hardware that potentially is not good enough to experience the content with natively. Similar
I am pretty sure that if Microsoft attempts that, Apple will revoke RDP's notarization.
"Streaming games are permitted so long as they adhere to all guidelines -- for example, each game update must be submitted for review, developers must provide appropriate metadata for search, games must use in-app purchase to unlock features or functionality, etc. Of course, there is always the open Internet and web browser apps to reach all users outside of the App Store.
Each streaming game must be submitted to the App Store as an individual app so that it has an App Store product page, appears in charts and search, has user ratings and review, can be managed with Screen Time and other parental control apps, appears on the user's device, etc."
Translation: we want f*king 30% on everything.
Each streaming game must be submitted to the App Store as an individual app so that it has an App Store product page, appears in charts and search, has user ratings and review, can be managed with Screen Time and other parental control apps, appears on the user's device, etc."
Translation: we want f*king 30% on everything.
But this also lets you be more granular than other platforms. Maybe I don't like that the CEO of a company said or did something, and so I don't want my kids playing their games. So I want to restrict their fairly harmless shooter but I am OK with my kid playing something more violent. Maybe I don't consider nudity the same as the company hosting. Maybe I am ok with
And yet all completely different both in terms of companies and the law.
Some of us prefer to keep crap out of sight. Netflix style movies are bad enough. Keep that away from games.
Still waiting for Apple to launch 50 million apps to listen to the whole Apple Music library.
I actually think this is a better solution for the users.
In this way, you first have a catalogue app with all the games. But it’s not like you are playing 100 different games at the same time. Maybe a handful. They are then added to your Home Screen as any other app on your iPhone.
I mean, it’s not like you go into the App Store to launch the apps and games you’ve already installed, right? No, it’s a lot more convenient to launch it directly from the Home Screen.
So, for what it’s worth, I don’t think Microsoft can argue this is a worse experience for the user in the long run. It is however worse for Microsoft as they have to manage hundreds of apps. I’m sure they could find a lot automation around it and each app would literally just be different meta data with a unique name, icon and a string from which game to launch. But still.
In this way, you first have a catalogue app with all the games. But it’s not like you are playing 100 different games at the same time. Maybe a handful. They are then added to your Home Screen as any other app on your iPhone.
I mean, it’s not like you go into the App Store to launch the apps and games you’ve already installed, right? No, it’s a lot more convenient to launch it directly from the Home Screen.
So, for what it’s worth, I don’t think Microsoft can argue this is a worse experience for the user in the long run. It is however worse for Microsoft as they have to manage hundreds of apps. I’m sure they could find a lot automation around it and each app would literally just be different meta data with a unique name, icon and a string from which game to launch. But still.
I thought it wa just about submission to the app store. TBQH this solves the problem.
Netflix shows and movies aren't executable/interactive code that needs to be reviewed. A whole movie is static and once reviewed, can’t be changed. Games, especially multiplayer games present emergent content to a participant. It’s quite plain, Apple has a larger market of control-seeking consumers, people wanting to use things like xCloud don’t rate highly (yet).
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Nice to see Apples AppStore guidelines crash and burn. Apple knows that it will get regulated ...
So is a game streaming service - code is executed on the XBox, you only see a movie ...
Each xCloud game would also need to be reviewed by Apple, just like any other app in the store.
It’s like a movie Toy Story 4 gets a separate app and needs to be reviewed by Apple before being able to stream.
Xbox live streaming has like over 200 games... do you want to download over 200 separate apps instead of one app that will let you choose your game? Not to mention HOW would you know what to find , if you have to go to an app anyway to see a list...
XCloud games do not execute on the phone, but in a server several miles away. There is literally no difference to a Netflix film.
From a users point of view, I’m accustomed to how it works with streaming services like Netflix. You login and get to choose from everything the streaming service has to offer. But from the perspective of a playground where both big players and small players coexist. I actually like this approach. Searching for games doesn’t move into streaming apps, where I login to xcloud and search for games there and only there. When the games are separate apps (even though they may be just launchers for a streaming game). If I search for an xcloud game, I will get search suggestions for the entire app store. I will see similar games from other streaming services or non-streaming apps. This will increase the likleyhood of me installing games outside of xcloud as well.
I’m enjoying the thought that games may become booth local and streaming apps at the same time. Your not at home or with limited bandwith, you play the version of the game on the device. You have limited hardware on your device, are connected to a high speed internet connection and you can choose to play the same game from a streaming service instead. It will all be transparent. Your savegames and achivements will be the same. Apples new guidlines actually encourages this development. This could even be an infrastructure that apple could provide for it‘s developers (but not exclusively). That players can run the same game from the device or from icloud depending on current hardware and bandwidth.
I could actually see a Steam Club subscription where Steam game developers can opt to publish their game for iOS and Android to be played locally, but with the option to play the pc-version of the game streamed to the device as well depending on bandwidth.
I’m enjoying the thought that games may become booth local and streaming apps at the same time. Your not at home or with limited bandwith, you play the version of the game on the device. You have limited hardware on your device, are connected to a high speed internet connection and you can choose to play the same game from a streaming service instead. It will all be transparent. Your savegames and achivements will be the same. Apples new guidlines actually encourages this development. This could even be an infrastructure that apple could provide for it‘s developers (but not exclusively). That players can run the same game from the device or from icloud depending on current hardware and bandwidth.
I could actually see a Steam Club subscription where Steam game developers can opt to publish their game for iOS and Android to be played locally, but with the option to play the pc-version of the game streamed to the device as well depending on bandwidth.
the point is Apple wants AppleTV+ on FireStick, FireTV and Android, AndroidTV. And Apple doesn‘t want to pay 30%.