Well I guess we really can’t have nice things. About three weeks ago we told you about the Stadium app, a standalone web browser app that was built with the necessary features that allowed users of Google’s Stadia game streaming service to access and play games through that service on their iOS devices, all while using Apple’s approved tools and following their approved guidelines. Or at least that’s what we thought. In a post over on Reddit highlighting an announcement from Stadium’s developer Zachary Knox in Discord, it appears that Apple has taken issue with the way that Stadium, to quote the Apple Review team member who reached out to the developer, “[extends] WebKit with native APIs to connect with Bluetooth." Now I am no developer and I am not very knowledgable when it comes to this sort of stuff, but it seems that using Apple’s WebKit to connect to the official Stadia web portal is fine, and using Bluetooth to connect to game controllers is fine, but using Bluetooth-connected controllers to actually control Stadia through the WebKit connection is NOT fine in Apple’s eyes. Again, I am a total laymen here but I don’t see the harm in allowing what Stadium was doing, and it definitely comes off as an excuse for Apple to boot Stadium from the App Store based on a technicality.

Interestingly, when Stadium was originally released it only supported MFi, Xbox, or PlayStation 4 controllers, and amusingly didn&...