Apple Rejects Valve's 'Steam Link' App on iOS After Previously Approving It Earlier this Month
We all knew in our hearts it was too good to be true, right" It looks like Apple has decided to reject the Steam Link app from Valve Software, according to news coming out of the game developer and creators of Steam. Valve originally announced news of Steam Link coming to iOS and Android on the 9th of this month, with the plan being to launch it the week of the 25th?aka this week. The Steam Link app would allow iOS and Android users to stream games from their Steam library on their desktop computer right to their mobile devices, and the whole thing actually worked quite well as we noted in our hands-on preview of Steam Link about a week later.
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Well, apparently Apple is not cool with all of this, and so they've rejected the Steam Link app. But wait! That's not all. According to Valve's press release, Apple had already pre-approved the Steam Link app on May 7th, leading them to announce the news to the world on May 9th. The very next morning Apple revoked that initial approval, citing "business conflicts with app guidelines" that apparently Apple didn't take into consideration when approving the app on the 7th. Here is the full statement from Valve courtesy of Robert Goode on Twitter.
Apple kiboshed Steam Link on iOS. Bummer. pic.twitter.com/BRshMmmDZB
— Robert Goode (@Shipwreck) May 24, 2018
As Valve notes in their statement, it's not like the Steam Link app was doing anything that other remote deskto...
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