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Microsoft's xCloud and Xbox Game Pass Not Coming to iOS Due to Apple's Restrictions [Updated]
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I‘m super curious how this is any different from an app like Netflix, Spotify or Prime Video. Apple has competitors for those too. I said in another thread but there’s no reason in 2020 you can’t get apps from outside the App Store like on a Mac. This is anti competitive behaviour.
The government is going to step in and ask Cook to eat crow. You have Phil leaving cause he doesn’t need the drama. He’s been wanting out for some time. There’s a reason the core golden team has fallen apart repeatedly.
I'm ditching the iPad Pro for a Surface Pro. I will still get an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro but it will run iPad apps so it's sort of best of both worlds. Apple is closing itself off far too much with its insular view of the world I detest it. But the Windows 10 experience kinda sucks compared to how smooth macOS and iOS is. Android is still no go for me though.
If @Apple is reading this, no iPadOS iPad Pros are not my next "computer".
If they pull moonlight and steam link I am selling all of my Apple TV's. I'm already irritated there's no PS4 remote play app.
That’s why Apple Arcade is the only way Apple makes money from games on iOS, right? Oh... wait.
iOS and its game apps compete with Xbox, and vice versa.
Apple Arcade is a subscription service for games. You seem ignorant of that.
that new note 20 ultra is starting to look really good for streaming games
Admittedly I do like macOS as it's 'flexible enough' to side load apps and ARM MacBooks running iPad apps will be highly convenient - for me it's running authenticator apps directly on the desktop and not pulling my phone out to login to things. But iOS and iPadOS are becoming far too restrictive for more creative use cases. Windows 10's approach of having the user choose between locked down or open is something I would dearly like Apple to implement on iOS (maybe iOS Pro?). I'm still haunted by Jony Ive's sanctimonious voice saying you can "immerse yourself in your content" in that iOS 7 intro video.
I like where iPadOS is going in terms of becoming more powerful, but in the next 5 years it will IMHO not be nearly as efficient as a real desktop OS. Don't even get me started on the "desktop class browser" on iPads. It's not.
Purists prefer bluray's bitrate over Netflix streaming bitrate. Yet Netflix is huge. Purists are a niche
The only ignorant thing hair is believing that Apple should have absolute control over the App Store and other developers should have an opportunity to put their apps there regardless of background or being a streaming service.
Apple is avoiding a platform with far better games than exist on their platform. I am sorry, but mobile games in the app store are small league compared to the major games that will be available with xCloud. I guess Apple only wants their customers to play games that are worthy of playing on the bus or on the toilet instead of AAA games.
This is true of every ‘allowed’ media streaming app. There are films and shows on Netflix, Prime, etc that would be 100% banned if they were an app in themselves or an offering in the iTunes Store.
With all the "thumbs down" on your post (and soon to be mine) I will say how shocked I am that people don't know the difference between an app and a movie, and the slap in the face it would be to Apple developers to let an outside business slide on through with no testing when they (the Apple developers) have all of their their app/game submissions tested.
Yeah, Cyberpunk 2077 and Candy Crush are totally the same thing.
The bizarre thing is that Apple allows things that actually are direct competition, while banning this. Such as HBO through HBO Go rather than through the TV app.
no. iOS games do not compete with Xbox, PS4 or Switch for that matter. iOS games are usually quick money grabs while console games are in a whole different level.So Apple is just forbidding quality stuff in the store so you keep buying all the ****** they get a cut from
I am sorry, I would love to be able to play big title games on my iPad Pro 13". I do not think that the games that are available on the App Store are in any way in the same business as games on console platforms and what xCloud will bring. I don't even play games on my iOS devices because I don't want to play crappy freemium games or most of the types of games that are available. xCloud would actually help take iOS to the next level.
Sure, tell that to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's manufacturing divisions.
No apology necessary. This may get sorted out to your liking. Code is code whether it's on your machine or streamed to it. That hidden "bug" in a game is why Apple reviews all submissions.
Because PC customers are too smart to pay the Apple Tax to join the Apple Ecosystem! /s