The benefit is convenience. If your desktop gaming PC is in a study/office, but you feel like sitting on the couch in the living room, being able to play the game on your iPad may mean the difference playing or not.
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Apple's Phil Schiller Explains Why Valve's Steam Link App Was Rejected
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I wouldn’t be surprised if this just opened their eyes to a problem they didn’t realize was there and they started clamping down on RD.
Odd, last I heard most Apple customers actually have no idea what Steam even is. Idle threats, nothing more.
The HomePod is not restricted to Apple Music only. You can stream music to it from any app just like any other AirPlay speaker.
This IS restricted to Apple devices only, but anything that can play audio on iOS or MacOS can stream to a HomePod.
I don't even like or want a HomePod but I hate seeing this wrong information posted all the time and have to correct it.
The heart of the matter: Apple wants 30% on all app-related revenue that goes through their platform.
Also, they have protect against user-generated "hate" content you might see or hear in-game. Ignore that iTunes sells rap music with misogynist and racist lyrics.
Apple's "walled-garden" to app approval is turning into more of a gulag every day. It would be pretty courageous if they dropped that nonsense instead of headphone ports.
That's not true. Apple music is baked into HomePod where you dont need another iOS device to "stream" to it. If you want to play spotify, you have to use your phone or another iOS device and use airplay.The HomePod is not restricted to Apple Music only. You can stream music to it from any app just like any other AirPlay speaker.
This IS restricted to Apple devices only, but anything that can play audio on iOS or MacOS can stream to a HomePod.
I don't even like or want a HomePod but I hate seeing this wrong information posted all the time and have to correct it.
Yes it does, I’ve bought a few games through that app when they’ve been on sale and not home to buy via steam application on computer
Go and buy a galaxy s9, apple without jobs is gone.
Sure. You can stream Spotify to HomePod. You just can't shout "HEY SIRI, NEXT SONG", "HEY SIRI I LIKE THIS SONG", "HEY SIRI I DON'T LIKE THIS SONG," "NO SIRI THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID" at Spotify on the HomePod. But you can easily operate it from your phone or Mac and the HomePod will work just fine.
Time to open up iOS and let other stores in. Even if they had to split devices/iOS.
Have a Closed and Open version of the iOS and let the users/developers decide.
Apple has always been on the side of walled gardens but I am getting tired of it.
Have a Closed and Open version of the iOS and let the users/developers decide.
Apple has always been on the side of walled gardens but I am getting tired of it.
Well, you are always allowed to leave. I don’t see Apple changing their ways anytime soon and there is no reason to.
If you want an open system with different stores, iOS isn’t for you.
Apple could buy Steam with today’s sales.
Some of you have no concept of business. Sure, Apple would like to have the app available, but acting like this is some monumental decision point is just absurd. In the end, it was Apple that walked away.
What? Many people who have iPhones don’t even have computers, not to mention configurations powerful enough for the app to be meaningful. There is no way this app would make any meaningful dent to App Store revenue. Especially since most money comes from games that would not benefit from this at all (the candy crushes et al.)
there is no big conspiracy theory here like some of you would like to believe. unfortunately, this is all due to stupidity. Apple no longer allows certain LAN functionality. fox example, with iOS 11 and up apps can no longer read MAC addresses from the ARP table of iOS making it extremely difficult to identify devices on the network. IT managing apps like Fing have also suffered due to this. there are other stupid limitations as well.
I imagine most Apple customers under the age of 30 have a pretty good idea what Steam is.
Pretty sure if you're correcting it all the time, someone has brought it to your attention that people mean native play on the HomePod. Also pretty sure this is not the first time someone has had to correct you on it.The HomePod is not restricted to Apple Music only. You can stream music to it from any app just like any other AirPlay speaker.
This IS restricted to Apple devices only, but anything that can play audio on iOS or MacOS can stream to a HomePod.
I don't even like or want a HomePod but I hate seeing this wrong information posted all the time and have to correct it.
he should rather show us great Macs again as MBP 16/17 is pure tragedy
Everyone knows steam is trying to screw Apple over. It takes balls to attempt this on Apple's own platforms, and quite rightly Apple has told them to get lost.
Apple is a technology company that provides products to let me do what I need to do. It is very dangerous for them to start preventing people from doing what they want.
When Apple starts interfering with what I want to do because they'd rather sell me IAP-hell freemium games that I don't want to play, Apple ceases to have any reason at all to exist.
Steam doesn't need Apple at all, they are huge in the gaming space where Apple is just a freemium joke. Look at all the people in the gaming forum here drooling over the games that only exist on PC and praying for ports. The limited selection of Steam games that work on Mac is a boon for Apple users, not the other way around.
Apple needs Steam because it might help them gain traction among gamers. I don't own an Apple TV and have no interest in one. But Steam alone make Apple TV a lot more interesting.
There’s a reason why the iOS App Store takes in more revenue than android despite its smaller market share.
Apple has the best customers. The iOS App Store represents an extremely lucrative market for Steam (arguably even moreso than android) and I believe being banned from it would be quite financially damaging to Steam.
They both need each other, though Apple is in a position of greater leverage and is thus able to dictate terms to Steam (within reason of course).
And dictate terms Apple will.
I'm in my mid 50s and I have close to 300 games in my steam library, so it's not just young people.
I think the differnce is that you can’t use anything from the amazon app directly within your iOS device but games, books and such are things you buy to consume in your device and those things qualify as in app purchases.
Right now you can buy steam games from their current app but you can’t use them in your iOS so it doesn’t make sense for Apple to get any cut form it, just like it is if you use an app to purchase train or plane tickets. but if the new app allows you to buy stuff you play on your iOS device...Apple wants a cut of that.
I don’t totally agree with this logic but it seems this is the case with why some apps are allowed and others don’t.