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What does SteamOS mean for Apple, Google, Microsoft and the gaming industry?

  • Valve recently announced SteamOS, which is being called the future of gaming and revolutionary. http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-applications/why-valves-steamos-could-be-revolutionary/d/d-id/899846 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/09/gabe-newell-linux-is-the-future-of-gaming-new-hardware-coming-soon/ Computer and video game companies posted overall sales in 2012 of nearly $21 billion in revenues and the gaming community is huge with millions of gamers, if not more. Most of them have either used or heard of Linux. SteamOS as a Linux-based open source gaming platform could become the next big app store and eventually it's own mobile OS. Valve doesn't plan to put SteamOS on mobile devices and smartphones as of yet, but if/when that happens, SteamOS could become a major player in the mobile OS market and cut into iOS' and Android's market share. It could even open up the doors for other WebOS' (huevos'?!) ...Adobe could create their own OS to go along with their Creative Cloud suite. FlashOS, anyone? 2014 could be the year of the WebOS. Looking for others to weigh in on this. Do you think SteamOS will have a big impact or do you think there will be big changes in the  gaming industry and the mobile os market over the next few years?

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    SteamOS is, like OSx, based on a version of Linux/Unix.  While I love Steam as a game hosting site, it is a lot different to be a hardware and software provider.  SteamOS is meant as a replacement for dedicated gaming consoles, not general purpose computing platform.  And if you remember, iOS is a very lean, optimized game platform that does real-time work as a phone as well. Google intends to continue it's focus on the cloud, positioning things like Chromebooks strictly as a way to get to the Google cloud environment. I do not see great things coming from Valve.  There are already great versions of gaming platforms, and this really has no differenciator.

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