Microsoft's Polemic With Apple Because Of Blocking XCloud Gaming Services

JAKARTA - The technology giant Microsot gave a warning to Apple Inc. for limiting the access of cloud gaming developers to put their applications on the App Store. As a result, the Xbox game streaming service cannot be used by iPhone and iPad users.

"Apple wants to stand alone as the only platform that has a general goal of rejecting consumers from cloud gaming and game subscription services such as Xbox Game Pass," said a Microsoft spokesman as quoted by The Verge, Friday, August 7.

Earlier, Apple revealed that it doesn't allow game streaming apps like Microsoft's xCloud service because they don't follow the company's guidelines, including submitting games individually for review and appearing on charts and searches.

The dispute between the companies comes as Microsoft prepares to publicly release its game streaming service, previously called Project xCloud. This marks his first step towards offering games to players without the need for a PC or video game console.

The technology effectively enables people to play video games on a computer server away from home, in the same way as streaming movies from Netflix. In fact, this has long been discussed as a new way of playing video games in the future.

Many industry insiders are seeing Microsoft's move to actually offer the technology. However, users will have to pay up to US $ 15 per month to subscribe to Xbox Games Pass Ultimate.

The Microsoft service launched last year includes access to the company's Xbox Live social game network and access to a library of more than 100 games, including the adventure game Minecraft Dungeons, Gears 5 space-age war title and Bungie's Destiny 2 sci-fi shooting game.

Currently, Microsoft is working to find a way to bring the service to iPhone and iPad, although it did not say how that happened.

"We believe that customers need to be at the heart of the gaming experience and gamers tell us they want to play, connect and share anywhere, wherever they are," said a Microsoft spokesman.

Seeing Apple in action, many thought that it wasn't just slowing down Microsoft's efforts to offer this new technology to gamers accustomed to streaming music, movies and TV shows. However, the public has also highlighted Apple's controversial relationships with developers, some of whom are increasingly complaining that Apple is a bit over-managing its App Store.

Meanwhile, Apple argues that this is very fair. This is because the iPhone maker commissioned a study published in July asking for up to 30 percent commission for paid apps and subscriptions in its app store. One of the victims of that rule is Spotify.