Not many, and AFAIK none have in-app purchases that Apple is missing out on. If they do then it's not enough to be worth starting a fight over yet.

It is still a movie and so would be regulated under existing movie classification systems.

And since movies are over a century old every country has a similar regulatory framework.

Most countries do not have an equivalent for apps/games and so it is ultimately left to Apple to regulate.

What regulations are those? Netflix has Minecraft Story Mode now https://www.netflix.com/title/80227995 . What regulations are being applied, and how are those incompatible with video games?

Also aren't movie rating systems like the MPA self-regulated? Not required by law. There's already equivalent systems for video games with PEGI and ESRB.

The American MPA is self-regulated (probably simply to put it into legal territory, since legislating it would probably prevent freedom of expression and translates to censorship, especially if the authority is directly government-controlled) but some other systems are legislated (not just in countries you think as opressive, mind you: Britain has an independent organization that rates movies but are approved by the government).

Still a bit flawed though: I thought that there is already a ratings board in America for software?

Yeah. I don't think there's been any authority that Netflix has submitted all their films to, to be on Apple's devices. Why should Microsoft's Game Pass be any different.

You understand that there is more to the world than the US.

Every country has regulations for music/movies/TV. US and a handful of other countries have them for games and I am not aware of any for apps.

That's why I'm asking what regulations are there? I'm not claiming they don't exist. If something like Minecraft Story Mode is a movie on Netflix, what movie ratings does it have? For example, I can find it on ESRB's website rating, but it's not like it's on MPA's https://www.filmratings.com/

https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34178/Minecraft%3A+Story+Mode+-...

Meanwhile Netflix's own Bandersnatch is not ESRB rated, and isn't too different as a game. Yet Apple has supported both of these perfectly fine regardless of their lack of proper ratings.

> Most countries do not have an equivalent for apps/games and so it is ultimately left to Apple to regulate.

We literally have ESRB that's a whole lot less arbitrary than Apple's review system.

ESRB isn't for apps and is US only.

Hence my point that there isn't a global regulatory framework for apps/games like there is for music/movies.