Technology
Microsoft asks ACCC to make the iPhone more like Windows – The Australian Financial Review
In its submission, the technology giant strongly criticised the walled-garden approach Apple takes to its phones and tablets,
Microsoft claims its game-streaming platform, Xbox Game Pass, has effectively been hobbled by Apple on iPhones and iPads in order to protect Apple’s own gaming service, Apple Arcade.
Microsoft told the ACCC that Arcade gets “preferential and advantageous treatment in the App Store like “no other third-party game or gaming subscription service”.
In September, Apple backed away from its ban on games streaming services such as Xbox Game Pass but it then went on to impose strict policies on how they…
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