Apple reportedly bids for firm behind Kinect sensor

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Apple has reportedly made an offer of $280 million to acquire fabless semiconductor company PrimeSense, the Israeli firm that provided the tech behind the original Kinect.

According to local newspaper Calcalist (via Verge), the iPhone maker tabled the bid for the 3D sensing and machine vision technologies specialist following discussions over the embedding of its tech in Apple products.

PrimSense, which was founded in 2005, claims its technology powers more than 20 million devices.

In April, Apple posted its first quarterly drop in profits in ten years. The company made a net profit of $9.5 billion (£6.2b) for its fiscal 2013 second quarter, down from $11.6 billion (£7.6b) a year earlier, while generating record March quarter revenue of $43.6 billion (£28.6b) following jumps in iPhone and iPad sales.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the time: "Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software, and services and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline."

In May, Apple said iOS App Store downloads had topped 50 billion. And earlier this month, the company revealed the all-time best selling iPhone and iPad apps.

Posted: Jul 16, 2013 9:52 am
Related Forum: Mobile Devices

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/419301/apple-reportedly-bids-for-firm-behind-kinect-sensor/

Comments

OasisPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

LuckyOtter
immyjimmy apple are biding for only the company that provided the technology behind the kinect, but not all of it. Why can't people understand that apple are not buying the kinect?

Because people don't read the article and just post. Look at the argument under this post. They all think Apple will be getting a Kinect. Anyway the reason they are doing this is probably something to do with their cameras on iMacs and their laptops.

All I can picture now is a kinect sensor strapped to my arm with a screen for itunes.

LuckyOtterPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

immyjimmy apple are biding for only the company that provided the technology behind the kinect, but not all of it. Why can't people understand that apple are not buying the kinect?

Because people don't read the article and just post. Look at the argument under this post. They all think Apple will be getting a Kinect. Anyway the reason they are doing this is probably something to do with their cameras on iMacs and their laptops.

immyjimmyPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

apple are biding for only the company that provided the technology behind the kinect, but not all of it. Why can't people understand that apple are not buying the kinect?

DJMarkyMarkPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Kinect has yet to impress many people. But I do see a lot of potential in Kinect.

With updated technology the possibilities for it seem endless.

SwiftPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Im confused what would apple do with the Kinect?

RuinsPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Releases
Gossip Kinect is garbage. Apple do NOT do this.

Dude Kinect is a powerful piece of hardware, It is far from "sucking"

Actually if it sucks why dont you invent something better than the kinect for microsoft....

Kinect 2.0 seems to be decent but the first was crap

ReleasesPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Gossip Kinect is garbage. Apple do NOT do this.

Dude Kinect is a powerful piece of hardware, It is far from "sucking"

Actually if it sucks why dont you invent something better than the kinect for microsoft....

GossipPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

Kinect is garbage. Apple do NOT do this.

AlbericiPosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

CFO apple is running out of ideas for what to do so now their just going to follow everybody else with motion sensing

Agreed. I hope they dont get it and the kinect sucks it is for like little kids.

WoobiePosted: Tue. Jul 16, 2013

CFO apple is running out of ideas for what to do so now their just going to follow everybody else with motion sensing

They gotta do what they gotta do!

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