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This article misses the point of steam boxes, entirely. Misconceptions the author appears to be under: 1.) Valve are releasing hardware. They are not, and do
by corin_ 13y ago
This article misses the point of steam boxes, entirely.
Misconceptions the author appears to be under:
1.) Valve are releasing hardware. They are not, and do not plan to.
2.) Laptop steam boxes will come in the future. This makes absolutely no sense, the entire purpose of SteamOS is big picture mode for TV gaming. It's not even meant for desktop gaming, yet alone on-the-move gaming.
3.) Ironic that in his discussion of where Mac users might flee to he says "Dell and HP got nothin’." when one of those companies is creating one of the first steam boxes which Valve announced on Monday (Dell)
4.) Also ironic that in that same paragraph he dismisses Linux, without realising that if you close the gaming part of a steam box all that's left is linux. Not even a new OS based on a linux kernel, just linux.
Just a really poor article which didn't need to be written.
Disclaimer: I work in marketing on behalf of one of the steam box manufacturers, the above views are my own and do not reflect those of any company.
- dkhenry 13y agoI am thinking the writer saw a nice piece of hardware that wasn't made by apple and for a second he is thinking what would happen if he stepped outside the reality distortion field that consumes the west coast.
- corin_ 13y agoI think it makes complete sense to someone who knows only very basic information about steam boxes, without any distortion field needed. If you take a look at the beta box Valve released, it's based on linux and it looks sexy. If that's all the information you have then sure, Valve might threaten Apple. But the author's job is to find out more information than that, and with all the recent press that isn't even 3 minutes of research to do.
- nhaehnle 13y agoIsn't Valve located on the west coast as well?
- pjmlp 13y agoHe also misses the point about developers and Apple. It might be that in US, everyone jumped on Apple's bandwagon. But most European developers I know are still on Windows/Linux/BSD systems on their desktop/laptops.
- mjolk 13y agoMost of the European developers that _I_ know are using apple hardware. Anecdotes are fun!
- lukecampbell 13y agoTo my knowledge, I don't think Valve has ever had any intentions of developing serious developer tools for software (not games). Apple and Microsoft both have suites of tools for developers to use and Linux is one big developer tool kit. The purpose, as stated by Valve, is for gaming not development. I think that this article is reaching a bit far.