Fight Apple - XBox Mobile Device (Series M)

Rigs3575 · Sep 13, 2020

Microsoft friends,

As a Apple customer, with an iPhone and an iPad, I am very frustrated that Apple is preventing me from enjoying xCloud on my mobile devices. I encourage Microsoft to fight back by releasing an Android powered mobile device as an option for Game Pass All
Access. This would be the least expensive All Access Option for the Xbox customers and would allow customers to get an inexpensive, but fully compatible, device with which to play xCloud. I am invested in my Apple devices, I am also equally invested in Xbox.
I would be interested in this as an All Access Option, or as an independently available purchase from Microsoft as an official Xbox offering. Microsoft would probably need to release an existing android tablet as the initial solution for us Apple users, but
eventually Microsoft could release an android powered device that mimics the Switch Lite, allowing for a gaming experience that would be preferable to an iPhone or an iPad. This wifi powered “Xbox series M” would also provide tablet functionality that would
threaten Apple’s tablet market share. Maybe this would wake them up. I also think this “Nintendo Switch Lite” alternative would be an attractive for all xCloud users who would enjoy this form factor.

Thanks for taking care of all your Xbox users, even those of us who have Apple devices and have been left out in the cold by Apple’s overly restrictive App Store policies.

Thanks for taking care of all your Xbox users, even those of us who have Apple devices and have been left out in the cold by Apple’s overly restrictive App Store policies.

Many thanks, Rich

:)

Obsessive Power

Why do all that when most modern android devices running at least Android 6 OS (Marshmallow)? No need for Microsoft to make their own Android device.

You can actually run Xcloud on Amazon's inexpensive Fire 10 - (but you'll need side load it on the device). I understand it doesn't work well on the Fire 8 devices though.

Rigs3575

You both are quite right of course, but there is an odd sort of barrier to entry for an Apple loyalist to buy an Android device, but if it were marketed as an extension to XBox, as an XBox loyalist, I probably would. Maybe that doesn’t make much sense, but
I think it would be true from a marketing perspective. I don’t pretend that it is logical, but it is psychological.

thank you for your tips though, I appreciate it. The Fire sounds like a good way to go.

thanks, Rich

StuartATrueRed

There is no need to do that, as most android devices (Phones & Tablets) support Xbox cloud gaming now anyway. Just download the game pass app, and game as much as you like on the cloud.

MarsNeedsTacos

Yea, Apple blocks anything except Apple certified devices like the 'official' Apple game pad from Steel Series. I believe there are a couple others but no Xbox controllers are supported.

SwordofWhedon

Download it to your Xbox, PC or other supported device

If you're on iOS you'll have to wait your turn in the cloud as Epic and Apple are fighting.

Fight Apple - XBox Mobile Device (Series M)