Apple will allow xCloud and Stadia on the App Store, with big restrictions
https://thenextweb.com/apple/2020/09/11/apple-allow-xcloud-stadia-app-store-big-restrictions/
Apple today revealed that, after stubbornly refusing to allow cloud gaming apps like Google Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud onto the App Store, it’s now revising those policies to allow them entry — though the policies are still very restrictive.
The new rules have a whole section devoted to streaming games and how they’ll fit into the App Store ecosystem. They permit services to have App Store catalog apps, and access to Apple’s payment apparatus, but every game has to pass an individual review process. Here are the new sections in full:
Apple will allow xCloud and Stadia on the App Store, with big restrictions
Sep 12, 2020, 12:20am UTC
https://thenextweb.com/apple/2020/09/11/apple-allow-xcloud-stadia-app-store-big-restrictions/
> Apple today revealed that, after stubbornly refusing to allow cloud gaming apps like Google Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud onto the App Store, it’s now revising those policies to allow them entry — though the policies are still very restrictive.
> The new rules have a whole section devoted to streaming games and how they’ll fit into the App Store ecosystem. They permit services to have App Store catalog apps, and access to Apple’s payment apparatus, but every game has to pass an individual review process. Here are the new sections in full: