That has been the dream since OnLive (2003) was a thing. While things have improved much in the 19 years since, Cloud gaming is still hampered by server infrastructure and the requisite connection speed (What Is Cloud Gaming And Is It Worth It?)
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I looked this up and as I suspected whoever said this didn't know what they were talking about:
"A firm is in a dominant position if it has the ability to behave independently of its competitors, customers, suppliers and, ultimately, the final consumer. A dominant firm holding such market power would have the ability to set prices above the competitive level to sell products of an inferior quality or to reduce its rate of innovation below the level that would exist in a competitive market. Under EU competition law, it is not illegal to hold a dominant position, since a dominant position can be obtained by legitimate means of competition, for example by inventing and selling a better product. Instead, competition rules do not allow companies to abuse their dominant position. (...) A dominant firm is one which accounts for a significant share of a given market and has a significantly larger market share than its next largest rival." — DOMINANCE (NOTION)
4054 (“Competition Law”) defines dominance as follows: “Dominant Position is the power of one or more undertakings in a particular market to determine economic parameters such as price, supply, the amount of production and distribution, by acting independently of their competitors and customers.”
Since Android dominates in terms of market power in Europe via its marketshare (71.83%) which is more than double what Apple's iOS has (27.58%) the idea Apple is dominant in the EU in any rational sense of the term (layman or legal) is 'Trump really won the 2020 election' levels of delusional.
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Indeed! Based on this, it’s clear that the reason why there’s a lot of talk but no actual actions behind it is because everyone knows the first case that goes forward will set the precedent (that companies that do business in the way that Apple does is acting within the letter of the law) and all other cases will fall apart. If they just wait, something else will come along that will give them the “out” they need to say, “Yes, we tried, but there’s nothing we can do,” and don’t have to put their necks on the line
… and still don’t care. Played Fortnite for 15 minutes and deleted it from my Switch. Not something I enjoy and I’m pretty okay with it not be taking up space on my Switch, Xbox and Apple decives.
I don't care for this particular game, but happy for those who want any games on their Apple devices have more options to do so.
Question, if for whatever reason Pokemon Go is banned on the iOS App Store, knowing it requires locational data, and maybe some native API's, can it still work on something like the Xbox Cloud platform?
Question, if for whatever reason Pokemon Go is banned on the iOS App Store, knowing it requires locational data, and maybe some native API's, can it still work on something like the Xbox Cloud platform?
I would imagine yes. Right now, web applications request your location and the user has to approve that safari session using your location. If you stop actively using it, you’ll probably have to re-approve when you come back.