Apple in the past was going to buy Kinect Developer
Game controller Kinect is now central to the entertainment of Microsoft's strategy and allows the company to receive a significant profit. However, the Israeli publication Calcalist reports that its "Kinect" could do and the company Apple, which even before Microsoft was in talks to acquire Israeli Primesense.
The latter company is the original developer of 3D-sensors that are used in Kinect. Calcalist reports that Apple once offered Primesense 280 million dollars, but unlike Microsoft, Apple is not going to license the technology Primesence, originally veda talks to buy the entire company.
In Microsoft has agreed to license the technology, so that even after a major deal Primesence could license their design to other market players, including iRobot, Asus and others. Calcalist says that even after the failed transaction with Primesence Apple is actively engaged in the Israeli IT market and last year bought a company here Anobit for 400 million dollars.
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