If Shadow has been banned from the App Store it is because Microsoft denounced it

In February, the French application Shadow said goodbye to iOS for having contravened the directives of Apple. Indeed, the latter prohibits platforms which offer catalogs of alternative content. Since then, the firm has however reviewed its judgment and the platform has returned to the iPhone: it does not offer a toy library in itself but rather to stream a PC on mobile. Which is quite different, even if it is indeed possible to play uncontrolled titles.

In addition to this mishap is currently taking place another major affair. She sees Epic Games-the studio behind Fortnite- and Cupertino compete in the courts as part ofA relatively similar case summarized right here. But the file is so large that the stakeholders interviewed now represent an entire ecosystem.

A calculated blow?

Among them, Microsoft. The company of Satya Nadella was also victim of the limitations imposed by the App Store. Because if his Gaming XCloud service has indeed been tested in beta on iOS, he will never have been able to see the light of day in public version on the decision of the apple. What come to feed again the mill of the investigators criticizing the latter deemed anti -competitive of the latter, then promoting in fact in factits arcade package at 4.99 euros per month.

Just to defend yourself during the incident, Redmond had then called on scathing examples of injustice reigning on iPhone. Netflix and its thousands of films on the one hand, and the Shadow games on the other. Neither one nor two, rather than taking it into account, it was then at this precise moment that Apple began to take an interest in the app for the hundred thousand active users, ending up blocking it.

Anecdotes unveiled down

If this information was in fact unveiled during the hearings by Lori Wright,head of business developmentFrom the Xbox branch, this is actually not the first time that the Apple vs Epic trial has shared this kind of wink.

We remember in particular the testimony of Scott Forstall, ex-boss of software development at Apple. In an interview with the Californian court of justice, the CTO had explainedHow the Adobe Flash reader had been tested and then quickly abandoned on his home operating system.