Apple Could Cripple Microsoft's and Google's iOS Cloud Gaming Apps

In early August, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that new cloud gaming platforms like Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Project xCloud and Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google Stadia wouldn't work on iOS because they violated its App Store rules.

At the time, Apple claimed that in their current forms, xCloud and Stadia offered access to games that Apple couldn't directly review and approve. But after Microsoft publicly protested the decision, Apple recently softened its stance and revised its App Store guidelines.

Apple's revised rules will allow Microsoft and Google to offer cloud-based games on the App Store, but each game must be approved and listed individually. Therefore, each cloud-based game must be installed from the App Store before it's added to a platform's library of cloud-based games.

Source Fool.com