Today Amazon extremely nonchalantly announced a new cloud gaming service which they are calling Luna, and which will be launching into early access soon across PC, Mac, Fire TV, and iPhones and iPad. *Record scratch* Wait, what’s that" A game streaming service on iOS, you say" Surprisingly, yes. According to Amazon Luna will be available on iOS through web apps, and according to Apple’s own words when rejecting Microsoft’s xCloud service, this should be A-OK by them. Specifically, they somewhat snarkily mentioned that “there is always the open Internet and web browser apps to reach all users outside of the App Store" when they updated their App Store guidelines a couple of weeks back to technically “allow" game streaming services.
So hey, I’m happy to see Amazon trying to take advantage of this. I’m dubious to things like this that aren’t native apps, and both Microsoft with xCloud and Google with their streaming service Stadia have been hesitant to give up on finding a solution that would allow native apps to run their respective services on iOS. But I do admit I’ve been pretty darn impressed with some of the experiences I’ve had using “web apps" and if it can be done right and works just as a native app would, then who cares if it’s not actually using a native app" Not this guy, I can tell you that much. I just want my Game Pass on my iPhone, I don’t really care ho...