Emulators are taking over the App Store | The Vergecast

Of all the things Apple could allow first, I think it’s WILD emu­la­tion is the first. I feel like they’re pur­pose­ful­ly poi­son­ing the well here, and as soon as an emu­la­tor attracts some legal heat they’ll have an excuse to lock the whole App Store down again.

14:30 Sounds like this allows room for dis­trib­ut­ing home­brew games with­in the apps

2:45 There are no Euro­peans. It‘s a deci­sion of the Euro­pean Union.

I think it’s a genius move on Apple’s part. They’ve said, “Oh. You know bet­ter than Us? Ok. We’ll do it your way.”, and open the ecosys­tem to third par­ty App Stores. Then when thou­sands of peo­ple are com­plain­ing that the “offi­cial” app they down­loaded from a third-par­ty App Store is rid­dled with mal­ware and stole their bank details, Apple will just turn around and say, “Well this is exact­ly what we were try­ing to avoid. But you thought you knew bet­ter. Shall we do it our way again now?”

David’s Just Sounds — Every Tues­day on YouTube 😁

man this is so much more fun to watch rather than the audio pod­cast, please keep them coming.

Emu­la­tors in the Apple App Store is hilar­i­ous. It’s an android 😅…who tf asked for this?! Bug­gy sketchy apps are back.

6:27 “but it’ll take some work” yes, its like say­ing that installing some­thing on win­dows takes “some work”. like going to the chrome down­load page, click down­load, then dou­ble click the installer, then click­ing YES i very much want to do this. AND after SO MUCH WORK chrome is still the #1 brows­er crazy

before you say yeah but what about the games, its like say­ing that you ALSO need to work to install the adblock­er and oth­er exten­sions to make chrome usable. yep rock­et sci­ence crazy how deter­rent peo­ple are from using those because all the work you need to do

excit­ed to lis­ten to this, nin­ten­do games find­ing their ways to iphones? this could total­ly revive the games in iphones

Wel­come to the ArgylleCast.

You’re the only pod­casts I don’t skip and prob­a­bly could lis­ten to for 3 hours

I need a suits patel review now

54:54 you promised to link the “love the wiz” thing in the shownotes, where is it

I dis­agree with Nilay about the Frame TV. Peo­ple buy it because they think it’s futur­is­tic based on sci­fi movies where the TV is part of the house and because the untrained eye does­n’t know the dif­fer­ence between a bad TV and a bad video. I think if you explained to every Frame buy­er that they could get a much bet­ter dis­play with bet­ter fea­tures, most would do so.

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“More impor­tant than fire”: Hmm, agreed we need to eval­u­ate in ret­ro­spect, but look at the (first) mas­sive changes that are here, but are too close to see how much they are shift­ing human­i­ty: 1. Broad scale pho­to alter­ation — how will this actu­al­ly influ­ence our mem­o­ries and records of the past when pho­tos and videos are no longer gen­er­al­ly accept­ed to be gen­uine evi­dence of a shared expe­ri­ence. 2. Con­sum­able con­tent that isn’t made by humans — there has always been accep­tance that humans influ­enc­ing humans is a part of life. We are crest­ing a time when anoth­er “intel­li­gence” is active­ly cre­at­ing con­tent that is indis­tin­guish­able from our own. Already the talk is of iden­ti­fy­ing edge cas­es to uncov­er source. As those get smoothed out, next will be uncov­er­ing over­ar­ch­ing pat­terns. By that point, it will be impos­si­ble for the gen­er­al pub­lic to do. We are already talk­ing about bias based on train­ing data — 3 gen­er­a­tions from now will we be able to make that a pri­ori cal­cu­la­tion? Or will we have to deter­mine bias soe­ly on out­come? What if the bias was not intro­duced, but devel­oped ‘organ­i­cal­ly’? Would we even know, how large of an affect that already had on soci­ety, and how to deal with that, espe­cial­ly if the ‘bias’ served to fur­ther divide social groups employ­ing dif­fer­ent AI sys­tems — espe­cial­ly with a dimin­ish­ing source of objec­tive facts

Why aren’t it chap­ters in Apple Podcasts?

I used to defend Nin­ten­do against the whole emu­la­tion, but now? Screw ‘em.

They’ve had EVERY oppor­tu­ni­ty to make a store­front— which they ALREADY HAD on the Wii/WiiU— but chose to ignore the market.

Can’t whine about it now. 

Say what you will about Apple, but the copy of Iron Man I bought on iTunes 16 years ago is STILL THERE. Get with the times.

Sony’s OLED from “last year” is actu­al­ly a late-year mod­el on their 2024 plat­form. They are not mov­ing away from OLED. Sony often runs OLED and MiniLED sets for 2 years. And let’s see if in con­trolled reviews with cal­i­brat­ed sets if the Bravia 9 gets OLED lev­el blacks (it won’t).

Heads up, your ethics pol­i­cy is just an error 400

Who is Riley? I feel like I missed an episode. “Our bud­dy Riley! We all know Riley.”

Nilay, I love the pod­cast, but you said some­thing very wrong
“They own the whole back cat­a­logue of games”. That’s not true. Most games released for any giv­en con­sole are by third par­ty com­pa­nies. So if what­ev­er hold­ing com­pa­ny owns Atari want­ed to make a game ser­vice, they would have to go talk to Activi­sion to get the rights for Pit­fall (as an exam­ple). Most com­pa­nies do have alot of games they owned, but it’s not the major­i­ty of games on the platform.

Also the sub­scrip­tion ser­vice mod­el you’ve described and asked for exist! Microsoft has Gamepass (Which has recent as well as old­er games), Sony has one, and Nin­ten­do has Switch Online. Gamepass is to my knowl­edge the only one with a mobile app, and it is lim­it­ed to stream­ing rather than emu­la­tion currently

apple allows emu­la­tors like delta because of EU reg­u­la­tions
yet, i live in the EU and the “app is cur­rent­ly unavail­able in your coun­try or region”