Clearly, the company sees the potential for a loss of revenue, because if people can access real games from a PC on their mobile devices they might stop buying the Candy Crush microtransactions that form a huge chunk of Apple's app store revenue. But we hope Apple will reconsider in the future.Īpple's anti-competitive stance on this matter is disappointing, but not unsurprising. The team here spent many hours on this project and the approval process, so we're clearly disappointed. Ultimately, that appeal was denied, leaving the Steam Link app for iOS blocked from release. Valve appealed, explaining the Steam Link app simply functions as a LAN-based remote desktop similar to numerous remote desktop applications already available on the App Store. The following morning, Apple revoked its approval citing business conflicts with app guidelines that had allegedly not been realized by the original review team.
On Weds, May 9th, Valve released news of the app. Steam Link is already available on Android.įor lots more on Steam Link, check out the official Steam Link page on Valve's website.On Monday May 7th, Apple approved the Steam Link app for release. The Steam Link app is effectively a replacement for the physical Steam Link device that Valve discontinued in 2018. Keep your iOS device within a reasonable range of your router.
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