Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud gaming apps

Re:Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud g... by tracker1 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @07:21AM (#25550545)

Looks like you're right... $61b in store sales vs $413b in device sales, but not sure where the raw profits stack up... that said, I still think investors would be upset to drop $61b in what is likely high margins.

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Re:Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud g... by zepto on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:20AM (#25550831)

What has ‘dropping’ the store revenue got to do with any of this?

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Re:Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud g... by Brian_K_White on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:58PM (#25553769)

Everything. That's all this thread is about is exactly that.

My comment reacts to a comment claiming Apple doesn't care about collecting a fee from web apps.

Web apps theoretically allow both developers and users to skip the app store, and thus it's fees.

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Re:Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud g... by zepto on Sunday December 27, 2020 @09:34PM (#25556180)

Sure, but it’s a completely unsubstantiated leap to suggest that this means the store revenue will be ‘dropped’.

Both users and many developers benefit from the store for reasons already outlined in ways that the web can’t replicate.

It’s not going to be ‘dropped’ just because streaming games don’t fit the model.

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Re:Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud g... by Brian_K_White on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:53AM (#25557534)

Projections or thought experiments are not "leaps".

Perhaps you missed the top of this thread and lost track of what this conversation is even about?

If web apps can take the place of apps (and in broad strokes, yes they can) then the thought experiment is to ask "What if all apps became web apps?"

And that was just part of evaluating the plausibility of the position that Apple doesn't care about collecting fees from web apps.

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