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Don't Apple and Google have clauses in the developer contracts that prevent distributing a store from within their stores? It'd have to be Humble-Bundle style s
by rquirk 12y ago
Don't Apple and Google have clauses in the developer contracts that prevent distributing a store from within their stores? It'd have to be Humble-Bundle style side-loading on Android, which is not ideal, or simply "unpossible" on iOS.
- giancarlostoro 12y agoThis is what's keeping them from doing the same. They could always fork Android, but then you end up with Amazon Kindle Fire. Although... If the Ubuntu phones get anywhere it could be part of that ecosystem if Ubuntu makes it so, but who really knows at this point, it's too early to tell. It's much too complicated when Steam is it's own App market, and it would not provide much revenue for other companies, or incentives if you will?
- rquirk 12y agoThere's the steam box I suppose. A steam handheld would be pretty cool. I love the 3DS, but it is underpowered and the games are hella expensive. A good alternative with a controller and lots of reasonably-priced indie games would be great.
- ekianjo 12y agoThe upcoming Dragonbox Pyra could be a great Linux portable machine running Steam (provided they provide ARM runtimes + ARM recompiled versions of games).
- giancarlostoro 12y agoThis is probably another issue. They definitely haven't started to deploy ARM version of games yet, even though there's numerous games that are 'ARM' compatible. Although, any game coded in Java and similar frameworks could in theory already run on top of arm versions of said frameworks I suppose.
- mxfh 12y agoI assume the Humble Bundle app didn't leave Google Play on it's own yesterday: http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/102477658774/a-notice-regarding-the-humble-app http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/102477658774/a-notice-rega...