Rumors have been hot and heavy lately of a potential Valve console. The rumors got even more steam (if you will) when it appeared that Valve met with Apple to collaborate on a new console. It now seems that these were indeed nothing more than rumors…and false ones, at that. 
 
Valve’s Gabe Newell puts these rumors to rest once and for all: “We actually, we all sent mail to each other, going, ‘Who’s Tim Cook meeting with? Is he meeting with you? I’m not meeting with Tim Cook.’ So we’re… it’s one of those rumours that was stated so factually that we were actually confused.
 
No one here was meeting with Tim Cook or with anybody at Apple that day. I wish we were! We have a long list of things we’d love to see Apple do to support games and gaming better. But no, we didn’t meet with Tim Cook. He seems like a smart guy, but I’ve never actually met him.”
 
SOURCE | 7DCD