{"id":9221,"date":"2013-02-01T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T03:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2013-02-01T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T03:06:27","slug":"steam-boxs-biggest-threat-isnt-consoles-its-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9221","title":{"rendered":"Steam Box’s biggest threat isn’t consoles, it’s\u00a0Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s Valve’s goal for the Steam Box<\/a>, its own Linux-based gaming hardware which will bring Steam’s<\/a> Big Picture mode to living room televisions at an affordable price point. Valve is also teaming up with several hardware manufacturers<\/a>, who are also trying to put together the most attractive hardware at the most attractive price, in order to make the PC platform’s jump to the living room as painless as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Gabe Newell: Steam Box’s biggest threat isn’t consoles, it’s\u00a0Apple | Polygon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’d like to see more numbers.\u00a0 Having Apple at the high end and Linux at the low end seems like an OK solution and everyone makes money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s Valve’s goal for the Steam Box, its own Linux-based gaming hardware which will bring Steam’s Big Picture mode to living room televisions at an affordable price point. Valve is also teaming up with several hardware manufacturers, who are also … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[288,661,61,103],"class_list":["post-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-apple","tag-gaming","tag-linux","tag-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}