Despite recent changes to the app store to accommodate cloud gaming, Microsoft and Nvidia still don’t have native cloud-gaming apps on iOS. Anyone wishing to play Game Pass via the cloud on their iPhone must use a web app. New submissions to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reveal Microsoft’s reasons for not yet publishing an app.
In a submission from late July (via The Verge), Microsoft claims that Apple’s recent changes to its app guidelines are insufficient for Microsoft to release a native iOS app. Microsoft objects to Apple’s 3.11 guideline, which forbids developers from linking to outside websites for subscriptions, thereby circumventing Apple’s 30% cut on app transactions. It claims that, “The 30% commission fee makes it impossible for Microsoft to effective…