Microsoft Wants to Launch Xbox Games Store on iPhone

I am eagerly awaiting the launch of alternative game stores on the xBox!!! Oh wait is that not a thing? I'm confused.

How about launching Xbox Games specifically for the iPad/iPad Pro? I would love to play Xbox Games on a bigger screen display.

This would be killer. The iOS and Mac App Stores are absolute nightmares trying to find software and games on them. What I would give to be able to buy mobile apps and games from Steam or other places.

Apple should allow sideloading but not 3rd party app/game stores. What a terrible experience that would be

Mac has always allowed purchases of apps from any source. No big problems. No big security issues. No banking hacks stealing all of us Mac users money. No viruses locking up all of our Macs with ransomware.

We believe your statement only because Apple has said it... reinforced by suggestions of security compromises, etc... in spite of the enormous real evidence experienced by all of us that Mac "freedoms" to buy apps anywhere does not result in complete devastation of life as we know it.

Competition means better prices. Not every other store would require 30% off of the top. Competition limited to only trimming that down could deliver better prices while paying the creators of the apps the same... or more.

I'm an Apple everything guy but it's easy to see that the flexibility to source apps from beyond the Apple store would be no more trouble than the same flexibility we all enjoy with our Macs now. It can't be fine with the latter but world destroying for the former.

Alternate stores would simply be bad for Apple profits by completely controlling a single source of apps in one store. All of the nonsense about third party stores revolves around protecting that very lucrative arrangement above all else. All of the rationale made up in support of that is invented to make us believe that it is better to get our apps from only a single source at whatever price that store OWNER wants.

If we alter the scenario by slugging in some other name as store owner- say Microsoft, Google, Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast or similar- do we still make very passionate arguments for a single source of anything we buy being better for us consumers? Almost certainly not... because one seller is always very bad for consumers.

Apple should allow sideloading but not 3rd party app/game stores. What a terrible experience that would be

Steam is a third party app store and it's the #1 Windows app store on the planet, a juggernaut that even Microsoft and Sony can't ignore and have brought their exclusives to. Said app store is also available on Mac and has been since 2010

This would be killer. The iOS and Mac App Stores are absolute nightmares trying to find software and games on them. What I would give to be able to buy mobile apps and games from Steam or other places.

I’ll agree with that they are a mess with searching / discovering poor filters. You pretty much only get to see what Apple wants (meaning their select catagories and filters) you to see otherwise you have to pretty much search by name to discover