Apple Blocks Valve’s New Steam Link From iOS

<p>Valve&&num;8217&semi;s new Steam Link app will be an Android exclusive&period; At least&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s for the time being anyway&period; According to a statement from Valve&comma; Apple has declined to have the new app in its store&period; The news comes not long after the company initially accepted it into the store&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The app is supposed to let players stream PC games on their mobiles through Steam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Initial Acceptance<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>In a statement&comma; Valve said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<em>On Monday&comma; May 7th&comma; Apple approved the Steam Link app for release&period; The following morning&comma; Apple revoked its approval citing business conflicts with app guidelines that had allegedly not been realized by the original review team&period; The team here spent many hours on this project and the approval process&comma; so we&&num;8217&semi;re clearly disappointed&period; But we hope Apple will reconsider in the future&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It isn&&num;8217&semi;t currently known why the app was declined&comma; especially after being initially accepted&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;valve-to-roll-back-sexual-content-crackdown&sol;">Valve<&sol;a> announced the Steam Link app earlier this month&comma; with plans to release on Android and iOS shortly after that&period; The app allows players to stream PC games on their mobiles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So far&comma; Apple hasn&&num;8217&semi;t commented on either the initial acceptance or eventual rejection of the app&period; Normally&comma; the company doesn&&num;8217&semi;t comment on individual cases&period; However&comma; if they do in this case &&num;8211&semi; or if <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;valve">Valve<&sol;a> themselves comment further on the matter &&num;8211&semi; we&&num;8217&semi;ll be sure to update you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Streaming Alternatives<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>It seems possible its decision is related to concerns that the app circumvents the App Store&comma; letting Valve sell games to iOS users without allowing Apple to get a cut&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s purely speculation at this point&period; Moonlight and Remotr are available as alternatives&period; Rainway is another streaming service that just entered beta&comma; and will eventually support streaming on Xbox One&comma; PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Steam Link is currently available on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;play&period;google&period;com&sol;store&sol;apps&sol;details&quest;id&equals;com&period;valvesoftware&period;steamlink&amp&semi;hl&equals;en&lowbar;US">Android<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;engadget&period;com&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;25&sol;apple-blocks-steam-link-ios&sol;&quest;sr&lowbar;source&equals;Twitter&amp&semi;guccounter&equals;1">Engadget<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;