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Microsoft says it’s built an Xbox game store on Android but can’t launch it (www.theverge.com)
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft exec Sarah Bond said that in November, “players will be able to play and purchase Xbox games directly from the Xbox App on Android.” It’s almost December and the feature still isn’t live, but Bond says it’s not Microsoft’s fault. 

The problem, as she puts it, is that Microsoft would only be able to do it once a court order takes effect that forces sweeping changes for Google’s Play Store on Android, like opening it up to competition and ending the requirement for apps to use Google Play Billing.

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[-] einlander@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Yet Steam exists. If I was Microsoft I would be trying to improve the handheld experience on Windows. Launchers, games, and the os absolutely are not integrated and fight each other.

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

if only they had some way to ram an unwanted LLM into the windows handheld experience

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

They are doing that.

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