Watch Out Microsoft - Apple is Looking to Buy Kinect Makers
For some reason, Microsoft never bought the Kinect company...
Apple is apparently looking to snatch PrimeSense, the company that makes Kinect tech from beneath the noses of what is appearing to be a very complacent Microsoft according to reports.
Since we first heard that Microsoft was licensing a technology from a company based in Israel called PrimeSense - a technology that would change Xbox forever - we thought, "Why isn't Microsoft buying it outright?" We still think that, even more so now Apple is making a move to do just that.
This, at least, is what Israeli newpaper Calcalist would have us believe in a report, translated by Variety, which states:
"Apple is in early discussions to acquire motion-sensing chip startup PrimeSense, whose technology is used in Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect attachment, according to a published report.
"The tech giant is weighing a bid “probably” in the ballpark of $280 million... Top Apple engineering execs visited Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense in early July."
Ouch!
Since we first heard that Microsoft was licensing a technology from a company based in Israel called PrimeSense - a technology that would change Xbox forever - we thought, "Why isn't Microsoft buying it outright?" We still think that, even more so now Apple is making a move to do just that.
This, at least, is what Israeli newpaper Calcalist would have us believe in a report, translated by Variety, which states:
"Apple is in early discussions to acquire motion-sensing chip startup PrimeSense, whose technology is used in Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect attachment, according to a published report.
"The tech giant is weighing a bid “probably” in the ballpark of $280 million... Top Apple engineering execs visited Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense in early July."
Ouch!
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