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It’s not quite grabbing the ball and coming home, but Facebook has finally decided to follow in Microsoft’s footsteps and launch its Cloud Gaming app as a web app in the browser, rather than through the IOS App Store.
Apple’s rules have put Microsoft and Facebook on the back burner in trying to get their respective cloud gaming services on iOS devices. Facebook has been battling with Apple for this service since at least March 2020, with the iPhone creator claiming that all of its attempts to launch a Facebook Gaming app on iOS violate the iOS Terms of Service.
Apple changed its rules to allow cloud-based games last year, but still requested that they be submitted as individual apps, and not as a hub for other games. “We came to the same conclusion as the others: web apps are the only option for streaming cloud games on iOS right now,†Facebook vice president of games Vivek Sharma told The Verge.
This is the only solution, but apparently by design it is an inferior solution. Web applications cannot perform as well as applications offered through the App Store and do not benefit from the discovery possibilities of being on the store itself.
Because neither of the two companies is refusing to budge on this front, Facebook’s Happy Instant Games just sit on a URL that you can add to your homescreen, but don’t get the perks of being in an app. autonomous.
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