Apple’s “Walled Garden” was created to protect consumers from malicious apps, but it can also protect the business from the competition, as Microsoft and Facebook recently discovered.
At the end of last week, Apple refused to allow Microsoft to offer its xCloud streaming gaming app for iOS and iPadOS on the Apple App Store. At the same time, it approved a shortened version of the Facebook game app, without game streaming, in the store.
Microsoft’s xCloud service is slated to launch next month. It is designed to deliver console-quality games to mobile devices.
“Apple is not yet in direct competition in cloud gaming, but their arcade product could appear there in the future, and they could try to keep the competition out,” Eric Abbruzzese said. , senior analyst at TechNewsWorld, at TechNewsWorld. ABI research.
“This is Apple service protectionism,” added Michael Goodman, director of digital media at Strategy Analytics.
“They are hiding behind the App Store guidelines, which are not properly applied to Microsoft’s gaming service,” he told TechNewsWorld.
News Source: Technewsworld.Com
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