App Store 10.4.11 Movie Or TV

Its just asinine, and its hard to tell if its through sheer incompetence on Apples part, greed, vindictiveness, or a combination of all of those things.

You see Im also a big Xbox fan and absolutely love the idea of xCloud.

Being able to stream more than 100 full-blown console games to a variety of devices including smartphones and tablets feels like the future.

But because of Apples arbitrary guidelines and how they relate to different types of media, iOS users wont be allowed to partake in that future.

Thats because Apple has thus far not allowed game streaming services like xCloud or Googles Stadia onto the App Store, and one of the main reasons theyve cited is because they require the ability to review and approve every game thats included in those types of services.

If a game doesnt have an individual approval process or its own page in the App Store things like the app chart rankings, ratings, search metadata, and other aspects of how the App Store are run wouldnt work right.

App Store 10.4.11 Movie Or TV

Apple does not require Netflix to individually submit for review each and every movie or TV show offered with their subscription service, nor do they individually review every book on the Kindle store.

Apple has addressed this by stating that moviesTVbooks are passive media that dont need individual approval, but because games are interactive, they do need to be individually approved.

Here are the main relevant sections of the guidelines that deal with game streaming services.

Again, their reasons for wanting it this way make sense, i.e.

OS services like Screen Time or Parental Controls.

But this is entirely discounting what a game streaming service even is, and by that count its providing an impossible set of requirements to allow those services to operate on the App Store the way they are intended to.

Something like GameClub adheres to all these requirements, and it makes total sense.

It would also make sense if all Microsoft was trying to do was have their Game Pass service available on iOS.

They want xCloud, the streaming service portion of Game Pass, available on iOS just as it will be on Android when it launches next week.

Just like Netflix, the content itself is being hosted elsewhere and is simply being streamed to your own individual device.

To prove that Apple just straight up doesnt understand what a game streaming service even is, consider this other change from today regarding Section 3 of the guidelines.

That is like requiring the water that a restaurant serves to its guests to be dry.

I feel like commandeering some sort of gigantic government laser and burning the Jackie Chan WTF meme onto the face of the moon.

I just cant comprehend what Apples thinking is here, but whatever it may be this requirement effectively destroys the idea of a game streaming service right from the get-go.

This could simply mean offering a limited demo for these games.

Which I guess is fine That still defeats the purpose of streaming the games, but ok.

Why cant that also be the same for a game streaming service Apple continues to tout their level playing field for all developers but also plays by their own set of rules when it suits them.

Its like putting a cupcake in the middle of a live bear trap, and then offering it to someone.

Well, you cant say we didnt offer it to you Apple is presenting a set of guidelines that are impossible for a game streaming service to adhere to while still being able to call itself a game streaming service.

App Store For Mac 10.4.11