| Machiavellian said: Not going to happen. Apple like a closed ecosystem while Valve is all for an open eco. The two companies would be like Oil and water, they could never mix together. That doesn' mean that Apple would not go down this line and see if they could partner with Valve, I just do not believe the two companies could agree how such a console device would be supported. |
Open? Steam games have just as much DRM as iOS games do, and more than Mac App Store games do. There's little open about it.
Valve likes (other people's) open ecosystems because then they don't need to collaborate with another company in order to install their own closed platform on top of it. It's not oil and water, it's that Valve can't build their fortress inside somebody else's fortress without negotiating for permission first.
Very unlikely that this meeting has anything to do with a console. At best it might mean some kind of integration between Steam and the Mac App Store.
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