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xCloud deliberately avoids the app review process AIUI by allowing it to be an umbrella for any game.
by richardwhiuk 6y ago
xCloud deliberately avoids the app review process AIUI by allowing it to be an umbrella for any game.
- Hamuko 6y agoYeah, but the technology used for all of the games is the same isn't it? It's just streaming. And if it's about content, I doube Apple is pre-approving every Netflix show. I bet some of the offerings on Netflix even show female nipples. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-instagram-bans-freethenipple-2015-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/why-instagram-bans-freetheni...
- zepto 6y agoApps and videos pose different security risks, but I assume you know this.
- Hamuko 6y agoDo you think xCloud copies a binary executable of Halo Infinite on every Android and iOS device?
- zepto 6y agoDo you think it’s possible to enter a credit card number into a steaming video of ‘friends’? A steaming app (game or not) can pop up a fraudulent credit card payment interface at any time.
- Hamuko 6y agoI don't see the point you are making. If video streaming is so bad, Netflix should not be on the App Store for "iDevice security". If video game streaming is so bad, Twitch should not be on the App Store for "iDevice security".
- zimpenfish 6y ago> If video game streaming is so bad It's not just streaming, it's interactive streaming where it could well happen that PayToWin / LootBox / etc games can appear. Now, of course, they already exist on the App Store (and I honestly wish Apple would ban them outright) but there, at least, Apple has some kind of leverage - with xCloud, they have none.
- seslaire 6y agoWhat capabilities would the streamed app have for deception that a website lacks?
- jonny_eh 6y agoNetflix offers "interactive movies", and those are apparently ok, for some reason.
- zepto 6y agoThat’s a fair point. At some point far down the road of complexity, those could cross into the territory of ‘gaming’. But Netflix can read the same rules the rest of us can, and know that they signed a contract that doesn’t allow App storefronts.
- crysin 6y agoThe Witcher shows a lot of nipple
- viro 6y agoare you really comparing video to executable code?
- Hamuko 6y agoAm I comparing streaming video to streaming video? Why yes, I am.
- zepto 6y agoYou keep repeating this, but at this point it’s hard to imagine that you really see no difference in either the technology or the experience between what Netflix does and what xCloud does. Do you really not see that there is a difference between watching a movie, and controlling a remote video console which is playing a fully interactive video game?
- jolux 6y agoThere’s a difference but it’s relatively pedantic. Netflix has interactive shows and the play/pause is necessarily controlling a remote server as well.
- zepto 6y agoIt’s not pedantic to say that movies and videogames are different. Most people in the world would think you insane if you said you perceived them to be the same thing.
- jolux 6y agoYou’re misreading me. I’m saying that the technological distinction does not justify the policy distinction. I don’t at all believe they’re the same thing. The comments you’re replying to suggest that executables are being streamed or something, and they’re not.
- jolux 6y agoIt doesn’t download executables, it streams your inputs to a server which streams synced AV back.
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