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by numpad0 10 days ago
Apple is dogmatically anti games, they only spare bare minimum of effort to support videogames as an necessary evil. It's some Jobs' teaching thing.
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gaming apps account for approximately 70% of all App Store revenue.
On the iPhone, where they go out of their way to prevent Steam or anyone else eating into that market.

On Mac it's probably closer to 0% of all revenue, and they seem incapable of competing for it.

Of course, I agree. Just saying I think they probably do have to care about the gaming market a whole lot, whether Jobs liked it or not
Gambling apps. Extremely few of the "games" on App Store are traditional games. Most of them are lootbox puzzle slop because that's what Apple tolerates && most lucrative.