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Filed just yesterday, September 2nd 2025.
STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content.
https://uspto.report/TM/99370857
STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing; video game consoles; video game accessories, namely, controllers for video games.
I am hoping this ends up being a PC hardware ecosystem, where each component is a cartridge or LEGO brick. Just pull out the power supply, RAM, GPU, or CPU, and slot in another, without worrying about breaking something or technical details. No need to dig your paws into the flesh of the machine and hope your rocket surgery skills are up to the task.
Serious question: Have you ever built a PC?
Because it really isn't rocket appliances. I would venture your average 12 year old could do it, and has done it given a YouTube tutorial.
All of the connectors only fit one way, and they are all uniquely shaped/sized.
More expensive, Proprietary hardware, sounds like a nightmare for all involved.
If you don't understand how the parts work, what they do, how delicate the connectors are... Without any experience you can't know what not to do. Trying to build a PC, a lot can go wrong if you don't know what you're doing. That a lot of expensive parts that can be destroyed in a blink of an eye if you make a mistake.
You say all the parts fit only one way. Well, that depends on how clumsy or ignorant the builder is. Or both
Yes, it's possible to screw it up, but most people seem to be really nervous about screwing it up and don't screw it up. There are plenty of tutorials and whatnot on PC building that you can follow, and they'll tell you when you need to be careful (mostly just the CPU and PCIe cards like GPUs).
The average person will be fine if they do some amount of basic research. A modern PC only has like 6 parts anyway (motherboard, RAM, CPU, GPU, storage, and PSU), so there are only so many ways to get the wrong parts or something (mostly just mobo/CPU/RAM combo, which you can usually buy in a bundle). You don't have to know what everything does, you just need to be able to follow detailed instructions, which the motherboard will provide.