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Valve's New 'Steam Link Anywhere' Service Streams PC Games to Mobile Devices, Excluding Apple's
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Because it really sucks when there is something bad that happens, but over time it is buried by new news and people forget about the bad thing that happened. It is nice when something like this is not simply forgotten.
That feeling when your iPhone can't do something so you buy a Raspberry Pi to do it.
Kidding cause I didn't do this, nor do I care about non-Mac Steam games, but seriously this is dumb on Apple's part.
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Maybe the point of iPhone support is playing on the go. They say it lets you connect over the Internet but also say you need a "good" connection, so idk. I've never heard of anyone using this service, so I reserve the right to call it a gimmick.
Kidding cause I didn't do this, nor do I care about non-Mac Steam games, but seriously this is dumb on Apple's part.
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Do you have a source for the rejection claim? IIRC Apple said it was because of the remote desktop like tethering. iPhone gaming is a huge market, bigger than PC gaming I think.
Maybe the point of iPhone support is playing on the go. They say it lets you connect over the Internet but also say you need a "good" connection, so idk. I've never heard of anyone using this service, so I reserve the right to call it a gimmick.
Apple getting served an L at every turn. My god, can this company do anything right since Jobs died?
I just loaded up a beta version of the app:
https://i.imgur.com/9h3AEG4.png
Valve made a mobile-friendly interface that seamlessly allows you to bypass Apple and easily buy games direct from Steam to play on your phone.
This is NOT the same thing as regular remote desktop app. You're not presented with a remote view of a computer desktop and given control of a mouse with icons and web browser. You're presented with what appears to be a mobile-native application.
Apple created an App Store and told developers NOT to do this. You don't go into someone else's house and tell them what to do.
ALL Valve had to do to get this in the App Store was to hide the store interface when the app was loaded on iOS devices.
Valve CHOSE not to do this.
It doesn't matter if you whine and cry that Apple's rules aren't "fair". Apple built the iOS devices and made the App Store for them. They've had these rules in place for over a decade.
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You do realize that the current rules and controversies are because of Steve Jobs, right?
https://i.imgur.com/9h3AEG4.png
Valve made a mobile-friendly interface that seamlessly allows you to bypass Apple and easily buy games direct from Steam to play on your phone.
This is NOT the same thing as regular remote desktop app. You're not presented with a remote view of a computer desktop and given control of a mouse with icons and web browser. You're presented with what appears to be a mobile-native application.
Apple created an App Store and told developers NOT to do this. You don't go into someone else's house and tell them what to do.
ALL Valve had to do to get this in the App Store was to hide the store interface when the app was loaded on iOS devices.
Valve CHOSE not to do this.
It doesn't matter if you whine and cry that Apple's rules aren't "fair". Apple built the iOS devices and made the App Store for them. They've had these rules in place for over a decade.
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You do realize that the current rules and controversies are because of Steve Jobs, right?
@Xenomorph if valve, would remove the interface from the iOS app, and then provide an option in the steam streaming interface that would be 1:1 pixels identical to the iOS view, that would not violate apple's rules, right?
So there would be 0 difference, yet it would be allowed? That should sort of tell you that the "rules" that were once setup do not make any more sense in the current state of technology.
It like traffic laws would be mostly focussed at horse and carriage traffic.
Anyway, I usually have a nice iphone (xs max 512gb right now), if apple doesn't find a way to get this app to their customers, it's most probably going to be my last apple device.
So there would be 0 difference, yet it would be allowed? That should sort of tell you that the "rules" that were once setup do not make any more sense in the current state of technology.
It like traffic laws would be mostly focussed at horse and carriage traffic.
Anyway, I usually have a nice iphone (xs max 512gb right now), if apple doesn't find a way to get this app to their customers, it's most probably going to be my last apple device.
If Apple even had a realistic competitor they were trying to protect I could maybe see the justification, but the App store, seriously? What are they afraid people are going to be streaming candy crush over steam, or that the lucrative deals for RDR2 on iPad (which must be in the pipeline somewhere, right?) might fall through because of this?
It's all just a mix of greed/fear on Apple's part.
They are whole hog, all in on services revenue as the "lifeboat" and will do and say anything to protect that revenue stream.
They are whole hog, all in on services revenue as the "lifeboat" and will do and say anything to protect that revenue stream.
Damn. Apple, if you are listening, this is deeply disappointing. I want to be able to stream Steam games from PC to my ipad/iphone.
Because it was a big discussion on this and other sites and people have a variety of opinions on it...
Can we just add a libertarian-bot who auto-posts "If you don't like it, leave!" to all stories critical of Apple? Perhaps then we will be spared the gratuitous lectures by people who think saying such things constitutes enlightened philosophy or even, for that matter, good sense.
Feels like Valves fault. I have an arcade cabinett with an Raspberry pi and Retropie with Steam link installed in Retropie. If I try to stream from a computer with Mojave it causes a kernel panic- known bug with an audiodriver- can be fixable by removing a .kext file, but no sound then. Valve has known this for some time, but doesnt care to fix it.