Fri, Apr 13, 2012 | 21:56 BST

Report – Apple CEO Tim Cook pays Valve a visit, the Internet salivates

According to a report on Apple Insider, Apple CEO Tim Cook paid a visit to Valve headquarters today in Washington, and suggests he and the firm’s Gabe Newell could be cooking something up. These leads many to speculate numerous reasons for such a visit and what the duo could be discussing, such as the “input, output, and platform hardware” Valve is currently hiring for, maybe even the possibility of Steam integration with AppleTV. Then again, it could have just been a friendly visit. Put your speculation hats on and start guessing. Thanks, Kotaku.

17 comments

Razor
13/04/12, 8:54 pm

Gaben is trolling us all >.>

thesamy
13/04/12, 9:15 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JUST NOT THAT PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

diego-rbb-93
13/04/12, 9:58 pm

First event candidate for the “WTF of the Year 2012″.

AHA-Lambda
13/04/12, 10:29 pm

omg this could be fucking awesome!!

freedoms_stain
13/04/12, 11:03 pm

They’d be my last choice of hardware partner.

LOLshock94
13/04/12, 11:12 pm

apple<3

ultramega
13/04/12, 11:47 pm

Valve wouldn’t do this to their users… Nooooo. You wouldn’t, right, Valve?

Telepathic.Geometry
14/04/12, 12:46 am

:O ZOMGZ!

Erthazus
14/04/12, 6:00 am

This can be the greatest partnership ever at the same time it can be the worst partnership ever.

It depends on what they are going to do in the future.

#10

someguy2
14/04/12, 11:11 am

My theory is that since Valve are working on wearable computing (it’s been confirmed by Michael Abrash) and Apple filed a patent a few months ago for wearable computing, Apple are looking at Valve’s technology or Apple are patent pissed.

#11

manamana
14/04/12, 1:55 pm

They’d be my first choice of hardware partner.

#12

freedoms_stain
14/04/12, 3:46 pm

@11, The Valve philosophy: sell it low, sell a lot

The Apple philosophy: sell it high, talk a lot of bollocks about your competition and sue anyone for anything.

I see no incompatibility here at all.

#13

Gheritt White
16/04/12, 3:27 pm

Given Valve’s commitment to open platforms and Apple’s reliance on closed ecosystems, I’m not sure how well matched these companies are either.

That said, Half-Life 3 as an exclusive launch title for an Apple/Valve console solution would be the greatest “fuck you” Apple could give after Microsoft bought out Bungie for Xbox.

#14

Phoenixblight
16/04/12, 3:32 pm

This is probably a discussion between Valve and Apple and how they can get on the Ipad.

#15

Lounds
16/04/12, 3:45 pm

@12 you’re right there, but I feel Valve are planning something big, going for the game streaming would be the way to go.

#16

Phoenixblight
16/04/12, 3:48 pm

@15

Gabe has spoken against streaming games because the absolute need for high bandwidth.

#17

Gheritt White
16/04/12, 4:38 pm