Earlier this year, Apple loosened App Store rules to allow streaming game appsIt's been almost eight months since then and the industry's main services have still not landed on the iPhone and the iPadNow we know exactly why Microsoft hasn't made a move.
The owners of the Xbox brand They recently pointed out that the Cupertino company requires cloud gaming service providers to make all content, subscriptions or features available to users, even items that are linked to other platforms, such as in-app purchases.
The 30% commission dilemma
“It prevents developers from offering content on any platform if the content cannot be offered for purchase on iOS,” Microsoft says. In this sense, they point out that such a mechanism makes it unfeasible to launch streaming game apps in the Apple ecosystem. And they do not hesitate to point against the 30% commission.
For the company behind Windows, the fees that Apple charges developers are economically “unjustifiable.” These statements, it should be noted, come as part of an investigation by the UK Competition and Markets Authority into mobile browsers and cloud gaming.
Microsoft's decision in this scenario has been simply not to launch a native application. Xbox Cloud Gaming for iOS and iPad OS. After this news it is not clear if the application will be available in the near future, although users can still access this service directly through the browser of their Apple devices.
In any case, we are witnessing an unprecedented opening of Apple's “walled garden.” The company led by Tim Cook has been forced to make substantial changes to comply with European Union legislation, modifications that, in some cases, have crossed the borders of the community territory.
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