Coming from a console Kinect Apple?
An unconfirmed report emerged in recent days, indicating that the CEO of Apple , Tim Cook , was spotted at the offices of Valve in Washington . The CEO of one of the largest companies in the world, as a rule, do not visit personally, but other companies simply contact in a chat.
Many have speculated on why the visit of Cook to Valve , a company that produces the most popular series of video games like Half-Life and Team Fortress . Valve also has a line of incredibly robust platform games for PC called Steam, which operates similarly to ' App Store of Apple .
We received news that Cook was actually Valve , and most importantly, Apple would be planning an assault to conquer the living room of our homes. This attack is not limited to the long sarebe chatted Apple HDTV , but also to a console revolutionary ...
According to sources of Cult of Mac , Apple is working to a TV with iTunes integrated, touch screen technology with remote control and is compatible with voice commands Siri . The TV should arrive by the end of 2012 ...
The sources say that the console branded Apple , will have Kinect game. The interface will rely heavily on motion control and touch.
If true, this would not be the first foray of Cupertino in the market of console . In 1995 , Apple has teamed up with Bandai to the creation of a console at home with Mac OS called Bandai Pippin . The project, then, was quite disjointed when the company was trying to regain its image under the leadership of Michael Spindler . Apple licensed the platform Pippin at Bandai but the market was already dominated by the PlayStation and Sega . The price of the console Pippin was too high to compete and Bandai ended up selling less than 50,000 units before the project aside.
Returning to Valve : the company, on Steam , boasts 30 million active users for both PC and Mac. Steam is basically the benchmark for video games such as iTunes is for the music . Recent rumors reported that Valve is working on its own console called " Box Steam ".
Recent job of Valve also indicate that the company is working on a mysterious project hardware. The Box Steam , rumor has biometric technology with the shape of a bracelet or a wearable device for the recognition of the players.
Last year, the CEO of Valve , Gabe Newell , seemed concerned to approach Apple in trying to enter the television market and if there is someone who is good in the production and distribution of hardware, it's Apple . We do not know the exact details of why Tim Cook has met Valve recently, but based on what we heard, it is possible that Apple considers Valve the best partner to enter the world of video games.
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