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> The real problem is that developers have no choice except to offer their app through Apple's store How is this different from other walled garden game system
by musicale 4y ago
> The real problem is that developers have no choice except to offer their app through Apple's store
How is this different from other walled garden game systems/game stores like Nintendo's eShop?
Yet they seem to keep older games and apps, even niche titles for a limited audience (such as music production apps or BASIC programming apps) which I greatly appreciate.
I would agree that discoverability isn't great on the eShop, but there are dozens of enthusiast web sites which are pretty good for game discovery (also aggregators like metacritic.)
And, as I noted, I think Apple already has a good approach which they're using with Apple Music - better human curation including category/genre/time period/artist/etc. playlists. Podcasts/radio shows also help.
Many games (at least ones that aren't in the "live service" category) are more akin to movies, music, or books than to some sort of perishable produce, so a curation approach that balances older content with new content makes sense.
- dahfizz 4y agoIt depends on how you view your phone. Is it a single use appliance? Or is it a general use computer?
- judge2020 4y agoDoes that really matter? Would Microsoft making a web browser for Xbox[0] make it more general purpose, given you can now bank on it? 0: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/console/use-microsoft-edge-on-xbox https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/console...
- fuzzfactor 4y agoI wouldn't bank on it.
- II2II 4y agoConsoles are different because they have a limited shelf life. For example, I dug out my PS3 the other day and took a peek at their eshop. The most recent title was three years old. It also sounds like they're going to shut down the PS3 eshop, effectively ending the sale of old games anyhow. Something similar appears to be true for Nintendo. I pulled up their eshop on my 3DS and they have a message saying that it will be impossible to add funds to an account after March 20223. Presumably that means sales will end. As for other media, brick and mortar retailers were always selective about what they offered. I suspect that we will see something similar happen with their digital variants in the coming years. I also suspect that it will be sales numbers, not human curation, that will be the basis of their decisions.