{"id":28558,"date":"2020-04-06T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28558"},"modified":"2020-10-20T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:20:41","slug":"app-store-rules-limit-rival-gaming-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/06\/app-store-rules-limit-rival-gaming-services\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Rules Limit Rival Gaming Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-25\/google-stadia-nvidia-geforce-microsoft-xcloud-not-on-apple-ios\">Mark Gurman<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markgurman\/status\/1242797239296122880\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-25\/google-stadia-nvidia-geforce-microsoft-xcloud-not-on-apple-ios\">\n<p>Video-game fans suddenly have their pick of a huge menu of titles thanks to a raft of new mobile subscription services from Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.&rsquo;s Google and Nvidia Corp.<\/p>\n<p>But for the more than 1 billion users of Apple&rsquo;s iPhone and iPad, the only real option is Arcade, the subscription service launched by the company in September.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s because Apple imposes strict limits on the kinds of apps users can access on its devices. For example, App Store guidelines ban services that rely on streaming from the cloud. Arcade adheres to the requirements, in part, because it&rsquo;s included as a feature within the App Store itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1242835193125371904\">Tim Sweeney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1242835193125371904\">\n<p>Apple can&rsquo;t go on like this. Their bans on competing apps and competing payment services on iOS is breaking the evolutionary cycle of technology and even economics[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/spotify-time-to-play-fair\/\">Spotify: Time to Play Fair<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Gurman (tweet): Video-game fans suddenly have their pick of a huge menu of titles thanks to a raft of new mobile subscription services from Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.&rsquo;s Google and Nvidia Corp. But for the more than 1 billion users of Apple&rsquo;s iPhone and iPad, the only real option is Arcade, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-04-06T20:53:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"852f0d2b-dd68-418d-b169-eaac34ffb013","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-10-20T19:20:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AhS8NK91oQY2xaeqsNP-wEw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,38,1787,101,51,2005,31,1667,37,1981,1894],"class_list":["post-28558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-apple-arcade","tag-business","tag-google","tag-google-stadia","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-xcloud","tag-nvidia"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28559,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558\/revisions\/28559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}