Nintendo and MS are always talking to each other about something. Xbox Live’s name was revealed by accident by Nintendo back in the day - Peter Main mentioned it in an interview, because he thought MS had announced it already, because MS demoed Live to Nintendo when they were pitching it service the GameCube could use
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It’s just that good! It’ll never let that damn fashionista phone win!
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Apple fanboys are just cultists. They can’t provide any good reason why opening up Apple’s jail is bad for them as the customers. They don’t have to install third party AppStores. Malware is a problem every OS faces and doesn’t need to be spread through apps.
A little competition on Apple’s IOS will not hurt them. Imagine sticking up for the business interests of a 2 Trillion dollar company rather than yourself.
While we are fans of Xbox, we always want Xbox to do better and will criticise them where necessary because Xbox is a brand an not a friend.
I just hope this will finally end the Apple model, not just for apple but also the companies that copy them. For instance take their hardware, it is getting harder and harder to fix, expand or even maintain the products you buy yourself. And no… not just phones, it also extends to Notebooks, PC’s and other Apple hardware. Things that should be expandable and repairable. Apple claims it is to “increase speed and to keep scammers out with bad parts”, but everybody knows it’s a damn lie. If their hardware breaks out of warranty time? You’re screwed.
Of course Apple fanboys will scream at you that :“You should have gotten Apple care!”. No I should be able to change the DAMN SSD IN MY DAMN HARDWARE!.
Pardon my cursing but there are standards out there that would not slow it down at all, heck even with the M1, it would totally be possible to allow for ram expansion. Amiga did it for ages, slow and fast memory. Slow memory would be what you add yourself, so that processes that do not require fast access can use that and it’s miles faster (and also better for the SSD) than any swap file/partition.
Apple knows they can sell it to their fans, whom just buy it anyway with some “salesman sugar” sprinkled on top. It is just aggravating. Because others are copying it more and more.
Gone are the separate compartments to reach your storage, memory and battery. Replaced with screws or even glue. True, the quality is a bit better (like a simple plastic foil under the keyboard to prevent water damage), but clearly other manufacturers are copying the practices. I can still open most of my laptops and replace parts, but it is getting rarer and rarer. I had to tell some of my coworkers “no” for expanding ram, as they bought some fancy arse slim laptop that was glued together, and the ram soldered in place!
Sorry… ranting 
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Nintendo should have used Xbox Live long time ago. Their online services has been absolute trash fire.
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Apple stock price took a hit:
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Not nearly the market hit I expected given the finding.
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oh, this will get interesting
I told ya’ll…everyone thought EPIC was nuts because of their aggressive/troll behavior, but they had a logical legal case behind them. 
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Nintendo will commit seppuku before giving another service/console their games.
I dunno about that. I could see them putting their games on Game Pass actually (no, not kidding).
Nintendo gets to exist two decades behind everyone in several avenues, they are still the most conservative gaming company out there, they just don’t goddamn budge to things like this. If they wanted to put their games on gamepass, they’d rather create their own service which will work wonders for them instead of trying to work with Microsoft for that. They can sell a subscription to store a bunch of text files containing your Pokémon across games, so they can surely make their own service and sustain it. If you mean cloud, Nintendo would rather sell full priced cloud versions of games than put anything in gamepass.
Sure Nintendo games on gamepass exists in some possible world, but I have very little reason to believe that world is anywhere near realization this decade at the minimum.
But hey, I’d love to be wrong, who wouldn’t? 
Apple was allowed to remove Epic’s developer license. So how does Epic get their Developer Credentials back for creating officially listed titles for the Apple Store? Do they get someone else to develop a Fortnite App Installer for them?
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I’m sure they will have to comply with some process for reinstating them. That isn’t really important to me personally but the ramifications of the ruling are what interests me more broadly.
It’s off topic tbf, but what I am thinking of is moreso that Nintendo needs an online infrastructure that is robust and scalable towards future tech like streaming and they can’t build that themselves. They are seeing much more competition in the coming yrs in the mobile space and MS is well positioned to offer them access to Azure to serve those needs. On the other side of things, Game Pass is inherently attractive to Nintendo due to vastly larger addressable userbase w/in Game Pass’s reach, but that isn’t enough for Nintendo to boost their competition alone. That is where Azure could come in as something else MS could offer Nintendo in exchange for putting their games on the service. All hypothetical of course but it makes MUCH more sense than those thinking Game Pass would ever show up on Switch, for instance.
Nintendo would be forced to do something if Switch 2 fails. Remember the Wii U failed miserably. Theyre another Wii U away from becoming 3rd party. Nintendo don’t have console and handheld anymore. Its literally one device.
The battle continues…
Tim Sweeney did this thing wrong from the beginning. He should have teamed up with the EU. They have a good track record against Apple, now they even have to drop their proprietary connector for USB-C.
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Maybe, but it’s also possible they will just go wireless as that isn’t against the EU ruling.