Depends how they view their business evolving. Ask Apple if you can build a device that runs iOS. They have an App Store and make lots of money from it.
If they want to be in the hardware business, not just building proof of concept/proof of market devices, they very much may not want to share it with other manufacturing of competing devices.
Depends how they view their business evolving. Ask Apple if you can build a device that runs iOS.
If they want to be in the hardware business and SteamOS is the best thing out there, they very much may not want to make it easy for other people to run.
Presuming valve wants to do this of course.
Don’t see why they wouldn’t. Every SteamOS device sold is a huge win for them
Depends how they view their business evolving. Ask Apple if you can build a device that runs iOS. They have an App Store and make lots of money from it.
If they want to be in the hardware business, not just building proof of concept/proof of market devices, they very much may not want to share it with other manufacturing of competing devices.
They have everything to win and nothing to lose. SteamOS is purpose built to direct you to Steam, Valve only wins.
Depends how they view their business evolving. Ask Apple if you can build a device that runs iOS.
If they want to be in the hardware business and SteamOS is the best thing out there, they very much may not want to make it easy for other people to run.
They already stated they want to have SteamOS 3.0 available for everyone to download and install on any machine.
@Rossel @stevehobbes
Soon or later their making steam only available on steamOS.
There’s still a looong way to go before Valve can even think of doing something like that.