Valve’s alleged Steam Box console was back in the news earlier this week after the company posted a job vacancy in “hardware design, prototyping, testing, and production”. This was followed a day or two later with a rumour that Apple boss Tim Cook had visited Valve, prompting speculation that the two companies were working together on a project.
Except that thing about Tim Cook visiting Valve never happened.
“We actually, we all sent mail to each other, going, ‘Who’s Tim Cook meeting with? Is he meeting with you? I’m not meeting with Tim Cook.’ So we’re… it’s one of those rumors that was stated so factually that we were actually confused,” Valve overlord Gabe Newell told Seven Day Cooldown.
“No one here was meeting with Tim Cook or with anybody at Apple that day. I wish we were! We have a long list of things we’d love to see Apple do to support games and gaming better. But no, we didn’t meet with Tim Cook. He seems like a smart guy, but I’ve never actually met him.”
So no secret project here. Maybe.
Source: Seven Day Cooldown (via GamesIndustry)
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Quote “No one here was meeting with Tim Cook or with anybody at Apple that day” He says that day!! Doesn’t mean they didn’t meet on another day!