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Apple's new App Store tax, Microsoft Surface reviews, and Meta's earnings

The Vergecast

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Xbox Cloud Gaming

I think Microsoft went pretty quick with Xbox cloud gaming. Like they weren't intending to launch it when they did. They put actual Xbox consoles in the cloud rather than, you know, PCs or infrastructure like that. And they're kind of held up by that in a way, because their streaming architecture isn't quite as good as Stadia. Definitely not as good as G force now. The game stream market is unproven. No, I noticed how the economics work. Just flood the market with Xbox's people will buy games. We know how that money works. Gaming quote unquote recession proof. That's what people always say.

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