14 DAY TRIAL // A report by AppleInsider claiming Apple’s Tim Cook had paid Valve Software a visit has been debunked, with Valve themselves confirming in a podcast that the report was utter fabrication.
Valve boss Gabe Newell has revealed in an interview with Seven Day Cooldown that the news of him meeting up with Apple’s CEO was totally fake.
According to a transcript of the interview, Newell said, “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.”
Newell continued: “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.”
Tim Cook meeting up with the boss of a respected video game studio such as Valve wouldn’t be unheard of, which is probably why the AppleInsider story caught on.
Apple has never expressed too much interest in gaming on the Mac (though it does support it). The Cupertino giant, however, is heavily promoting its portables as gaming consoles.
There are rumors that Apple may finally take on the gaming industry, along with the TV industry, with the introduction of a full-fledged media center boasting a huge screen, iOS as the underlying software, Siri as the input mechanism, and a physical controller of some sort for software that actually requires button presses – such as video games.
Granted, such rumors are quite sketchy at this point but, if proved accurate, it wouldn’t be the first time Apple disrupted two industry segments in one blow.