Apple could have had Kinect technology before Microsoft.

[Joelcool7]

Apple wasn't that foolish. Kinect at the time was very unproven technology and any company adopting it was and is to this day taking a major gamble. Nintendo got offered the tech in 2007 and turned it down for various reasons. Also Microsoft themselves say voice recognition is the future in a recent article I read that Microsoft plans to use the voice recognition software in their future windows phones and computers.

So the question is what exactly did Apple miss out on? Plenty of competitors have camera's heck even UbiSoft had their own camera and claimed the technology they had could be modified to rival Kinect. Sony has the Eye-Toy and theirs like three or four other companies around the globe trumpeting their own technologies.

Apple or Nintendo for that matter if they really wanted could create their own camera's and their own software. They aren't missing out on much. Also the camera itself isn't even Microsoft's vision of the future recent statements suggest voice control is what they want for the near future.

So Apple will wait and see how Kinect does, they will wait and right now probubly already have teams developing similiar technology. If Microsoft is on to something and the camera is indeed the future then I bet Apple will launch their own I-Camera and wow you know they will have missed out on what? The early dev costs, the trial runs, the gamble of launching the technology.

They will stand to benefit more from Kinect then Microsoft themselves if they implement it right and Kinect succeeds.