The year is 2008 . Inon Beracha , CEO of the fellowship that engineered the encephalon of what is now Microsoft ’s shiny Kinect , is trying to find a buyer for the miracle tech . He tried Apple . No die . Why ? It was complicated .
Even two years ago , in its demo form , the PrimeSense sensor that top executive Kinectwas enormously impressive . So Beracha jet to Silicon Valley to drum up stake . His first full point ? Apple . “ It was the most raw place for the technology . ”
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Which make up sense in 2010 , given the extent to which Steve Jobs has broadened his imaginativeness of clit - less computing — a physical structure interface like Kinect ’s could have been at the fore of Apple ’s interface forefront . But Apple ’s sake in substitute control did n’t trump their tendency to be , well , controlling . Beracha says their meetings were scuttled by Apple ’s insistence on secrecy ( and a quite a little of contractual demands and NDAs ) . Beracha went elsewhere — and now Microsoft has its baby . And they are going to betray a lot of them . [ fad of Mac ]
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