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Valve Co-Founder Says Tim Cook Didn't Visit Valve HQ

Thursday April 19, 2012 3:41 pm PDT by Jordan Golson
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't visit Valve headquarters according to company co-founder Gabe Newell. The rumor, originally reported by AppleInsider, was squashed by Newell in a podcast interview.


Video game website Kotaku had a preview of the podcast from Seven Day Cooldown that included this quote:
We actually, we all sent mail to each other, going, "Who's Tim Cook meeting with? Is he meeting with you? I'm not meeting with Tim Cook." So we're... it's one of those rumors that was stated so factually that we were actually confused.

No one here was meeting with Tim Cook or with anybody at Apple that day. I wish we were! We have a long list of things we'd love to see Apple do to support games and gaming better. But no, we didn't meet with Tim Cook. He seems like a smart guy, but I've never actually met him.
The report of the meeting between Cook and Valve executives set off a torrent of speculation about partnerships between the companies, including rumors of Valve's Steam service integrating with the App Store or an Apple television.

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jlgolson
90 months ago

and why is this news? APPLE STOCK went down over 20 bucks today, that is news.

You want me to write a front page story every time Apple's stock moves 3.5%?

We try to contain that to major milestones and even then it's too much.
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MattInOz
90 months ago


Art mimics life
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SPNarwhal
90 months ago

who cares


A lot of people, and a lot of people here especially. Tim Cook meeting with Valve could mean a more serious approach to gaming on the Mac. That's a huge issue that people have been wanting fixed for a long while now. This seemed like a step forward, but it apparently never happened. Good to know, I guess. No expectations.
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Tesseract
90 months ago
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This makes me a very sad panda.
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trunten
90 months ago

and why is this news? APPLE STOCK went down over 20 bucks today, that is news.


news/n(y)o͞oz/
Noun:
Newly received or noteworthy information, esp. about recent or important events.
A broadcast or published report of news.


Seems like both are classed as news. Odd.
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SPNarwhal
90 months ago

when is macrumors in the business of managing expectations. stupid unnecessary story


When it created itself as a rumors website.. :confused:
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Daveoc64
90 months ago

Denying a rumor that gives you outsized attention and buzz is a gross error.


I think it was carefully worded to put pressure on Apple:

"No one here was meeting with Tim Cook or with anybody at Apple that day. I wish we were! We have a long list of things we'd love to see Apple do to support games and gaming better."
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iDemiurge
90 months ago
Hope there will be a nice mac version of the next SimCity. SimCity 4 on the mac is a freaking disaster.
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iSee
90 months ago

who cares


Man, if you go around the internet to comment on all the things you don't care about you'd have the busiest and least meaningful life imaginable.
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Peace
90 months ago
Ahh..The power of rumor sites at it's best.

"We actually, we all sent mail to each other, going, "Who's Tim Cook meeting with? Is he meeting with you? I'm not meeting with Tim Cook." So we're... it's one of those rumors that was stated so factually that we were actually confused."

So these guys at Valve seem to read the rumor sites.

Ha !

MR and AI could conspire and make stuff up and bring down the whole tech industry.

funny stuff indeed.

Oh. and btw guys. Doing that could manipulate the stock market if any of the market analyst actually listen to rumors.

*cough*
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