GeForce NOW Games Available on iOS Devices Through Safari, Fortnite Coming Soon (macrumors.com) 20
GeForce NOW, NVIDIA's streaming gaming service, today announced the launch of Safari integration, which will bring Fortnite and other games to Apple's iOS devices through the Safari browser. From a report: The new Safari integration is available in a beta capacity, and NVIDIA says that many games in the GeForce NOW library can be played on iOS devices. Using GeForce NOW on an iOS device requires a gamepad, and keyboard and mouse-only games are not available. NVIDIA has a list of recommended gamepads. NVIDIA is working alongside Epic Games on a touch-friendly version of Fortnite that will run on iOS devices through Safari, so Fortnite is not launching today, but it will be coming soon. Rumors earlier this month suggested that Fortnite would return to Apple's devices through a partnership with NVIDIA, and when the game launches on the GeForce NOW service, it will be the first time Fortnite has been accessible on iOS devices since the Apple vs. âOEEpic GamesâOE dispute kicked off in August.
Still forcing the app on Android/Win/MacOS? (Score:3, Interesting)
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I'd rather use the app, which has a better interface.
You don't even have to use the official app, nvidia doesn't do anything to prevent you from using your own. On Android there's "Moonlight" which works fine, you don't have to use nvidia's app.
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“GeForce Now” and “GeForce Experience”/Moonlight don’t use compatible protocols from what I can tell. “GeForce Experience” requires your own PC gaming rig where “GeForce Now” is Cloud based.
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Ah, I mistook what we were talking about, probably since even on cable I don't have low enough latency to want to use the service we actually are talking about. Sorry for the confusion.
I wonder if there will be a third party app for geforce now.
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Well there is a reason for that... and that would be predictability.
When they have an app, they can control which codecs are available, what is the latency, how the game controllers are utilized.
They can also do the same for a specific web platform. But it is not possible to do it in a generic way.
So, you are on Windows using Firefox, and have an on-board Intel GPU with no x265 acceleration? vs. another user on Raspberry PI 4 on Chromium with native HEVC decoder, but only up to 30 fps? What about older macs
Apple needs to be forced to open iOS. (Score:1)
They are clearly abusing their power on the app store and limiting both developers and customers.
The fact that companies like nvidia and microsoft cant release a proper app because Apple said so, without their customers having a proper option tells a lot about the need to break their nonsense process.
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Limiting developers only matters in the context of limiting customers, and only because it's artificial. If there were some technical reason they couldn't permit sideloading, which of course there is not, then developers and customers alike would have no complaint.
It's easy to say that customers have made their choice and should live with it, but customers with regrets fall into two categories: Those who knew what they were getting into, and those who didn't. And the latter category is further divided into
they should let other web rendering engines run MS (Score:2)
they should let other web rendering engines run MS was not allowed to lock in IE on windows
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Apple told them exactly what they had to do to get back on the App Store. Just respect the same contra
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doesn't mean Apple will treat you differently.
Like they treated Amazon, correct?
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Correct. Ignoring all the hype, Apple offers a 15% subscription cut (from 30% on the first year, after the second year it's 15%) if signed up through Apple, provided
1) Siri integration for program searches and commands
2) TV app integration
In other words, if you're allowing Apple to index your content (for Siri searches and other things) and allowing your content to be viewed through Apple's TV app, you qualify.
Netflix has historically refused to allow anyone access to its c
This will get ugly (Score:1)
I don't think NVIDIA is so stupid to think that Apple won't respond in such a manner. One reason that I can think of is that maybe they're baiting them to do something which can be used in an ongoing trial process? The mentio
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Apple takes a cut of all digital goods sold through the AppStore. Kindle has been in the AppStore forever because they technically don't violate this rule by offering no buttons to purchase content in the app. You have to buy Kindle books via the website. I once made an app that let you make postcards on your phone and then pay a fee to have them sent. I initially tried to use Apple's payment syst
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Browsers are basically Apple's schizophrenia inducer.
Jobs, from the very beginning, wanted to ban all software that could serve as an universal platform to run software on. This is why he personally made sure, no part of Java was allowed on iPhones, even though that would have had massive advantages, like being able to run all Android apps.
But browsers nowadays *are* such an universal platform. One that Apple cannot block or prevent. Leading to them being in this schizophrenic split, where they block all so
Re: This will get ugly (Score:2)
no part of Java was allowed on iPhones, even though that would have had massive advantages, like being able to run all Android apps.
Java would have been necessary, but far from sufficient, to be able to run all Android apps.
The technical and legal challenges of getting Android running inside iOS would be immense.
and apple will hit anti trust issues that MS hit w (Score:2)
and apple will hit anti trust issues that MS hit with IE lock in.
What will apple do when the EU says that ios must run other web rendering engines?
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So basically NVIDIA is circumventing Apples' payment mechanism by using this method. Good luck with that. Expect a patch from Apple in the coming weeks which will basically disable this method or make it completely unusable.
That's total nonsense. Would Apple did with Epic was completely legal: There was a contract between Apple and Epic, Epic was in breach of the contract, Apple cancelled the contract. Exactly what you would expect.
Nvidia has no contract with Apple. They haven't agreed to do or not to do anything. If Apple blocked them that would be tortious interference with Nvidia's business. Apple has a contract for the AppStore. You can do what you like outside the AppStore. (See for example Netflix who is just raking i
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So basically NVIDIA is circumventing Apples' payment mechanism by using this method. Good luck with that. Expect a patch from Apple in the coming weeks which will basically disable this method or make it completely unusable. Apple will blackhole NVIDIAs' whole domain if they have to...
I don't think NVIDIA is so stupid to think that Apple won't respond in such a manner. One reason that I can think of is that maybe they're baiting them to do something which can be used in an ongoing trial process? The mentioning of Fortnite doesn't seem circumstantial.
Do you actually believe that Apple gets to control which websites a user visits in their web browser? And that Apple would be as stupid as to give the EU (and other regulatory authorities) the ammunition they need to destroy them?
Now if only there were any games worth playing? (Score:2)
Does anyone know any games that give a grown-up human any new insights on life or skills that improve his life? And that aren't called "educational games". (Cause somehow, there seems to be an unwritten law that such games must be incredibly lame.)