How Apple Almost Got Microsoft's Kinect Game Controller

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From cultofmac.com:

In June 2008, on a flight home from Europe to San Francisco, I was given a fascinating demo of some jaw-dropping technology.

I was sitting next Inon Beracha, CEO of Israeli company PrimeSense, which had developed a low-cost chip and software to do 3D machine vision.

 

He�d already had several meetings at Apple. It was the first place he and his engineers thought of. �It was the most natural place for the technology,� he said.

 

Yet the initial meetings hadn�t gone so well. Obsessed with secrecy, Apple had already asked Beracha to sign a stack of crippling legal agreements and NDAs.

He shook his head. Why didn�t he want to do a deal with Apple? No need. The technology was hot. He could sell it to anyone.

 

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[.Slack♠]

exactly like what ibm did to Microsoft in the 80's which is a big part of the reason MS isnt owned by IBM.

[Slidell]

exactly like what ibm did to Microsoft in the 80's which is a big part of the reason MS isnt owned by IBM.

 

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exactly like what ibm did to Microsoft in the 80's which is a big part of the reason MS isnt owned by IBM.

not even close, IBM didn't care about the operating system, they agreed to let Microsoft sell DOS to anyone, which is why we are here today.