Earlier this year Apple started opening up its App Store to game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now, freeing them from being restricted to web apps on the iPhone and iPad. Despite multiple changes to Apple’s App Store guidelines this year, Microsoft and Nvidia have still not published native cloud gaming apps for iOS, and Microsoft is now detailing exactly why.
Microsoft already said earlier this year that Apple’s cloud changes don’t go “far enough” for Xbox, but in submissions to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft now argues that Apple’s changes in January, March, and April to its App Store guidelines (section 4.9 and 4.7) aren’t enough for it to operate a native Xbox Cloud Gaming app on…