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Fortnite to Return to iOS via Nvidia GeForce Now Streaming Service
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I mean the game is literally an online multiplayer game to begin. GeForce Now works quite well streaming games.
If Apple starts blocking websites in Safari for business reasons, they will have some serious problems with the US and EU with regards to antitrust.
It most certainly is not lag free, in fact with a perfect and wired connection you might get consistent latency below 40ms. Cloud computing/gaming will never be lag free, nor is local play, local is just small enough for people not to notice.
But they're not. Did you even read the headline, let alone the article?
The game literally being an online multiplayer game has nothing to do with how well it will stream. You had to download nearly 2GB worth of game data before you could even play it on iOS. Unless you have a blazing fast internet connection it just won't play well.
What do you mean? They're doing this through the browser, not the app store. Apple has no say here.
LOL Samsung would do anything to try and drive customers to their wasteland Galaxy app store that no one uses.
Because it didn't work in any browser on iOS. (They're all using the Safari engine.)
I don't think it will be an automatic loss, but Epic does lose some teeth here.
Heck, Epic could make their store web only with "installation" links on the user's screen. No 30% to
What about building controller support? Is that possible through safari?
This looks really good for Apple and really bad for Epic.
It shows that Apple making and enforcing rules for the app store does not have to have any effect on developers gettign their software onto iOS devices. developers simply have to work with and around Apple’s rules using web alternatives where necessary. It makes Epic look really silly imho.
It shows that Apple making and enforcing rules for the app store does not have to have any effect on developers gettign their software onto iOS devices. developers simply have to work with and around Apple’s rules using web alternatives where necessary. It makes Epic look really silly imho.
They are stupid and greedy. They were making wheel barrels of cash from iOS users and now that stopped.
Don't want to give Apple 30%, the use the Netflix or Kindle method...free app and users buy whatever outside the of app and then use it in the app. Sure it's not a direct path but it works just fine. The 30% you are saving can now be spent on managing the purchases from users via your website or whatever.
I totally disagree. Apple's unwillingness to adopt reasonable game-streaming app policies hurts all users. This is a workaround and will undoubtedly be a worse experience than a native app would, and all so Apple doesn't have to concede a 30% fee they clearly don't need.
You mean how Nintendo does? and Sony? and Microsoft? Wal-Mart? Target?
You realize they need to make money, right?
I didn’t mean nvidias GeForce now I meant playing fortnite on anything like this for iOS,
just it’s not appropriate for idiotic Epic to have this chance to use Nvidias system to not only have access to iOS again but to bypass Apple’s 30% thing.. sorry again I hope Apple prevents Nvidia from somehow having Fortnite given the legal action happening
That is a non sequitur. If what Apple is doing is the industry standard (which it is) that isn't being "greedy".
As for a "proper service" Epic AFAIK still hasn't figured how a digital shopping cart works (that is so jaw dropping dumb that it is unreal) and has encourage what amounts to bait and switch by get game that got money under promises of general distribution became an epic store exclusive.
yet, Steve Jobs literally said they fully support two platforms, the App Stote and the Web. if developers didn’t like the App Store, they goto the web
Steve also said people were holding their phones wrong. Not everything that comes from Apple is gospel truth, their support for the web is orders of magnitude more limited than their app store support in ways that can stop it from being a viable option.
Clearly you never used geforce now before, any game you play in the platform requires 0 preload of content for playing. Everything is streamed as video to the client. Games are not run in the device but their content run remotely and streamed to the browser (or desktop app).