ProbablyDylan
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Seems you're correct! I'm not sure if there was a change between the original announcement and now, or if we misinterpreted. I will correct my original comment.
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Delta Game Emulator Now Available From App Store on iPhone
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Seems you're correct! I'm not sure if there was a change between the original announcement and now, or if we misinterpreted. I will correct my original comment.
mudguts
macrumors member
bgillander
macrumors 65816
Then here’s hoping it just hasn’t shown up on the EU countries’ Apple App Stores yet, and will eventually. I don’t really recall having to go shopping in multiple places for applications as the “good old days”. Options are better when they don’t take away other options.
Madmic23
macrumors 6502a
It’s not them, it’s Apple. Apple is forcing any developer with an alternative App Store to pay a “Core Technology Fee” of €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold for apps distributed outside of the iOS App Store. So if 2 million people install one app from the AltStore, the developers must pay Apple €1 million, despite Apple not being involved at all in hosting those apps on a server. Even if your app is free, you have to pay Apple.
nathansz
Suspended
I’ve no interest in playing games on my phone but would love to see openemu or provenance on the tvOS App Store
Sideloading works but resigning is a pain
Sideloading works but resigning is a pain
QuarterSwede
macrumors G4
If they had released it on the App Store instead, they wouldn’t have to pay a cent.
Quite a huge hit to battery life, fyi…As expected, but still, have a charger handy if you’re planning to play much.
Samplasion
macrumors 6502a
...And just like I've been predicting for the past year and a half, "walled garden aficionados" would rather have no apps at all than accept apps on third party stores that would've never come to the app store regardless.
Samplasion
macrumors 6502a
Thus the allegations of anticompetitiveness
madebybela
macrumors 6502
Silly question. Where i can get games from?
ikir
macrumors 68020
Apple only removed one emulator, and that was because the dev admitted to ripping off another app’s code. This is here to stay. Try and keep up.
Oh come on ! You can use Google can’t you ? People can’t post rom sites
If you know English and can use Google you’ll find 1000s of sites out there
andreagrandi
macrumors regular
For those writing "Not available in [one_of_the_EU_countries]", it won't!
The developer has made an explicit choice of releasing Delta only on the AltStore in EU.
While, for example, people from US will be able to install Delta on both iPhone and iPad, from the official Apple App Store, EU people can only install it from the Alt Store, and because the alternative stores are only available on iPhone and not iPad, EU users won't be able to install it on the iPad.
I'm pretty sure the developer will blame this on Apple, while he clearly made a choice of not giving a choice to the users.
Wanna charge money for Delta? Absolutely fine! Wanna make it 30% more expensive on App Store, to cover Apple fees? Fine as well. But give users a choice and don't force them to install it from an alt store, and most important don't slap iPad users in the face like this!
The developer has made an explicit choice of releasing Delta only on the AltStore in EU.
While, for example, people from US will be able to install Delta on both iPhone and iPad, from the official Apple App Store, EU people can only install it from the Alt Store, and because the alternative stores are only available on iPhone and not iPad, EU users won't be able to install it on the iPad.
I'm pretty sure the developer will blame this on Apple, while he clearly made a choice of not giving a choice to the users.
Wanna charge money for Delta? Absolutely fine! Wanna make it 30% more expensive on App Store, to cover Apple fees? Fine as well. But give users a choice and don't force them to install it from an alt store, and most important don't slap iPad users in the face like this!
Yeah developers should not be able to gate keep where users get their apps from. They should be available everywhere.
gegy
macrumors member
That‘s the negative side about the stupid EU Law: No i can not install the app from the offical app store. To get the the app i need to use an untrusted alternative store within the EU.
I would like to have the emu, but i am not going to install it from an alternative store. In some cases, the EU decisions are foolish.
I would like to have the emu, but i am not going to install it from an alternative store. In some cases, the EU decisions are foolish.
SanderEvers
macrumors 6502a
People said developers weren't going to remove their Apps from the EU App Store and only release them in Alternative Stores. Without Apple's privacy protection.
Well, guess what. People were wrong. This is the first App not available in de EU App Store because of EU rules, and MANY others will follow.
And this is why I've always said that the DMA isn't the solution.
bgillander
macrumors 65816
Wait, Delta would’ve never come to the App Store regardless? It was still in my App Store when I downloaded it yesterday. Is it never already?
My main issue is with developers that complained about the lack of choice and options in the App Store now paying forward a lack of choice and options to those customers that would like to get their software, even when it is obvious that Apple isn’t the one preventing them from being in the App Store. Sure it might be easier for the developer, but it isn’t easier for the customer, but this was never actually about the customer, and it was annoying listening to some present it like it was.
UliBaer
macrumors 6502a
It's not the EU decisions, it's a combination of Apples and the developers decisions, with both i don't agree!