Mon. 01/28 - An Apple Subscription Gaming Service?

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🗓️ 28 January 2019

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, January 28, 2018.
0:09.1	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:11.1	An Apple subscription gaming service is Facebook watch still alive
0:15.8	the GDPR floodgates are truly open and losing to aIs might actually have
0:22.3	some benefits here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	I suppose we had to see this one coming. According to Alex Heath at Cheddar,
0:34.1	Apple is planning a subscription service for games.
0:37.6	In fact, it has already been holding discussions
0:40.8	with game developers about this scheme for some months.
0:44.0	Quote, the service would function like Netflix for games, allowing users who pay a subscription fee to access a bundled list of titles.
0:52.0	Apple began privately discussing a subscription service with game developers
0:56.0	in the second half of 2018, said the people, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss
1:00.9	unannounced plans. It's unclear how much the subscription will cost or what kind of games Apple will offer.
1:08.0	The service is still in the early stages of development and Apple could ultimately decide to abandon it. The company has also discussed
1:14.9	partnering with developers as a publisher, according to two people familiar
1:18.8	with the talks which could signal Apple's ambition to assume
1:21.8	distribution, marketing, and other related costs for selected
1:25.8	games."
1:26.8	So this obviously makes a lot of sense, along with subscription video, we've discussed how everyone in the game space wants to move to device agnostic subscription gaming, streaming gaming.
1:41.0	They want subscriptions because again everybody wants that sweet
1:46.0	sweet subscription revenue. Mobile gaming is expected to be a $100 billion
1:50.6	industry by 2021, but also device agnostic because if gaming
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