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Re:Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app by michaelt on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:23AM (#23789044)
> (steamos and the "failed" steamos console)

I agree that steamos hasn't been a big success in the market, but I'm pretty sure Valve intended it as negotiating leverage - BATNA [1] - when Microsoft came out with Windows Store.

So long as Microsoft isn't declaring "No app stores except ours" or "30% cut of sales to us, no exceptions" steamos has been a success from Valve's point of view :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...

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Re:Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app by BlackLotus89 on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:51AM (#23789174)
I'm a 100% with you on this. And it's even a great fallback since they are actively working on linux.
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