If you read this thread you will notice there are lots of technical explanations about streaming games already. You are confusing downloadable games with streaming games.
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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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And Apple then wants 30% of each cloud streaming game? Now Apple wants 30% of Halo?
I know this article briefly mentions Epic, but aren’t you conflating two separate issues. Xcloud wasn’t breaching terms. Apple twisted its policy to remove Xcloud and now has rewritten the terms to be even harder to circumvent. And making it unfair when compared to other streaming apps.
That is a separate issue when compared to Epics breach
But downloading a game. That’s the point of the service. If we aren’t downloading the game, how is that games developer supposed to provide the App Store updates to their game? That’s a major flaw in their terms. They want each individual game’s developer to submit the updates to them... updates that are made on Xcloud’s servers as we aren’t downloading the game to our device.
Game streaming is also not executable code. It’s a video stream in one direction and streaming user interaction back in the other.
To be frank, Citrix Workspace is already providing that experience – running apps remotely and have an "App Launcher" that launches remote apps. Granted, it's not games – but nothing prevents an organization to provide an xCloud-like experience via Citrix.
Neither is game streaming. You’re basically playing a movie. xCloud streams with H.264, same as a movie streaming service would
There are interactive movies on Netflix (for example an episode of black mirror).
Because that will break the "feel" of MS's immersive gaming ecosystem experience.
This is already allowed in the current policy. Apps from the same developer account can call on each other and pass information via API or via server calls.
MS wants to give users the experience of "one-stop-shop" - a gaming OS inside of iOS.
Apple doesn’t want another platform inside it’s platform.
They are right to not want that, and within their rights to prevent it if they want to do so.
Can I run Google Stadia on Xbox?
Can I run Xcloud on Playstation?
Can I run Steam on Switch?
If you want to stream games, work within Apple’s rules and use something like shadow.tech
They are right to not want that, and within their rights to prevent it if they want to do so.
Can I run Google Stadia on Xbox?
Can I run Xcloud on Playstation?
Can I run Steam on Switch?
If you want to stream games, work within Apple’s rules and use something like shadow.tech
I just want to comment on Microsoft's take on the subject.
Listen, Microsoft is not bad mouthing anybody here ...
They are just saying that they have a vision for delivering the service to users and that Apple's rules (or terms) weren't compatible (before) with the way they want users to experience the service and that the new rules (or terms) aren't really expressed in a way that changes anything to allow Microsoft's vision of the service (XCloud) on iOS.
But again ... In my opinion, I do not think Microsoft said anything bad in their comment.
Listen, Microsoft is not bad mouthing anybody here ...
They are just saying that they have a vision for delivering the service to users and that Apple's rules (or terms) weren't compatible (before) with the way they want users to experience the service and that the new rules (or terms) aren't really expressed in a way that changes anything to allow Microsoft's vision of the service (XCloud) on iOS.
But again ... In my opinion, I do not think Microsoft said anything bad in their comment.
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Maybe that's because android allows you to generally extracts APKs (at least on rooter phones) which researchers can then analyze. There is no equivalent ability to do this on iphones.
I doubt that Google is any worse than apple in their automated testing.
Are you telling me that the experience as a human being is the same if you play a streaming game and watching a streaming movie?
Do you think that watching a lot of still pictures is the same experience as watching a movie? After all a movie is just still pictures shown in rapid succession.
Basically, most intelligent human beings are able to determine when they are looking at pictures, watching a movie or playing a game. You seem to think that humans will not be able to distinguish between a streaming game and a streaming movie.
I like Apple too but why simp for a 2 trillion dollar corporation?
I recently switched from Android to IOS for security and privacy. That was worth more to me than my the fact (to me) that Android is superior in most other ways to IOS. I had forgotten had stifling the walled garden is. So, thanks Apple for reminding me to never purchases another Apple product again.
No offence, but you are to blame for your choice. You said you’d forgotten. If you’d remembered and/or researched, you wouldn’t have made the purchase. It’s not Apple’s fault, it’s yours.
So you cannot play Solitaire using a Citrix client? I highly doubt this
Point is Apple wants to control the content and Apple wants to avoid competition with Apple Arcade. Next year every website will need an approval from Apple to be viewed with Safari.And Apple tries to make its anti competitive behavior less obvious. Fail ...
Stop defending Apple in this. They’re very wrong here. And it’s hurting the brand.