As pointed out by others, this isn’t surprising-Apple would be letting something that presents some hefty competition to its lucrative games market onto its storefront-something that gives them no profit whatsoever. However, despite initially planning on releasing the app on iOS as well, it would appear that Apple has rejected the app for the foreseeable future.

Still getting close to playing a game was somewhat intriguing, and once I get better Wi-fi I can see it having some utility.

I personally decided to give it a go on my phone and found that my internet wasn’t good enough to get the job done. Given the state of the internet in America and the unreliability of Wi-Fi in the instance of the Steam link one does wonder how well this app would work in practice, not to mention how it would function across devices ranging in age and strength. The Steam Link App will feature support for the Steam Controller, MFI controllers, and more across both platforms. The Steam Link app, slated to launch the week of May 21st, allows gamers to experience their Steam library of games on their Android (phone, tablet, TV) and iOS-based (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV) devices while connected via 5Ghz network or wired Ethernet to a host system (Mac or PC), with Android access initially offered in beta. Flash forward to May 9th, and we saw the announcement of a steam link app for android-I’ll get onto the apple version in a bit-which is an intriguing new dimension to the concept of the Steam Link proper. Still the promise was there and it seemed like something that could definitely be of use. While there positive aspects to the device, the Wi-Fi function seemed to be less than satisfactory and there were some hardware/software quirks to be ironed out. A few years back Steam released the Steam link-an interesting device designed that when plugged into a TV and connected to the internet, allowed streaming via a gaming PC.

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