Had too many Android devices that never received an OS update. Or took ages and received one.
but Apple wont be competing (for 99% of people).
but Apple wont be competing (for 99% of people).
The DMA wont increase competition.
Doing a backflip now on this means VERY FEW people will have a need to go to an Alt App Store
So by using force, the EU have left Apple with no option really - and it will play into Apple's hands very nicely.
The backflip, add this new category, keep existing people using the official app store and when the ROM owners get upset, they can blame the EU.
The really interesting part will be when Nintendo and co start chasing down ROM sites.
Perhaps they will actually do the right thing and SELL them thru the App Store?
Everyone would be happy then...
It's a fine service but it's lacking some games I want to play.
Hurting? 😂
Apple preempted looming competition.
Great. So some people can get the apps they want (and wanted for a long time). More choice and utility for consumers.
It has gotten better in recent years, most of the games I’d want to play are on it. But there will always be some niche title that I may want to revisit at some point that’ll just never end up on the service (lately, it’s the NES ports of the Wizardry series, the music on that one was the soundtrack to [parts of] my misspent youth!).
It's not competition at all that drove this.
It's not competition at all that drove this.
EU forced things open and Apple had to RESPOND.
The clever thing was their response hasnt been well received because the EU directive was so vague in it's language.
The second clever thing was simply backflipping on a moral stance that game emulators allow piracy to now allowing them because the EU was enabling sideloading of things like game emulators meant Apple could no longer be seen as bad for flipping. It was going to happen.
In doing so, Apple effectively allowed the one thing 99% of side loaders wanted.
Which now means most people have no need or desire to use the alt app stores...
EU played their hand.
But there wasnt enough there to win this time.
Oh and Spotify laid off 20% of staff and still not profitable after realising some of those staff actually did some jobs that were needed to run a business. And put prices up. And cut pay outs... Ah but adding a link externally was going to make it flourish. LOL.
For those with multiple devices, the App Store’s benefit of being able to purchase once and have the same executable work on iPad/iPhone/Mac/Apple Vision still wins though. I’m guessing Apple saw an opportunity to “approve” this type of application to drive home that fact.
There was no market change. It was a legislative change that forced changes.
You transfer them via the web. For example, in the Provenance emulator for Apple TV, you open for transfers in the app, where you are presented with a link that you can visit from your computer, iPad, etc. (on the same network)
