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.

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-LivePosted:

I love how this article how little to nothing to do about the Kinect and the fanboy wars still happened :3

DiffucultPosted:

Deathsbugsy
Katsumi
-Wub The Kinect sucks!


How would you possibly know that the Xbox One Kinect sucks? Don't judge a product that has not been released yet.


"The Kinect" Could be referring to the original kinect.. Which did suck... :l


Yeah , I really didn't think it was that good of a "Item" to buy at the store or anything like nah not that good at all... That's why I stick to ps3 :D

DiffucultPosted:

Wagering Jesus Apple, where do you keep such cash...


They are liking loosing money , that they don't even need to make really man they don't....

WageringPosted:

Jesus Apple, where do you keep such cash...

DeathsbugsyPosted:

Katsumi
-Wub The Kinect sucks!


How would you possibly know that the Xbox One Kinect sucks? Don't judge a product that has not been released yet.


"The Kinect" Could be referring to the original kinect.. Which did suck... :l

YurPosted:

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


I agree, but you never know they bring out something spectacular.

TrevorPosted:

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

KatsumiPosted:

-Wub The Kinect sucks!


How would you possibly know that the Xbox One Kinect sucks? Don't judge a product that has not been released yet.

WubsPosted:

The Kinect sucks!

SorceryPosted:

Oh god, not you guys too, what is it with all the motion sensing obsessions?