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Apple invites Mini DisplayPort development
December 2nd 2008

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Ars Technica reports that Apple is offering all comers no-cost licenses for its implementation of the Mini DisplayPort. Yes, there are some legal hoops to jump through, but this "useful on systems where space is at a premium" implementation of the VESA-approved DisPlayport standard is otherwise free.

Perhaps our favorite fruit company is hoping that it can avoid burying let another Apple-created "standard," like the Apple Display Connector (ADC), by opening / giving away this bit of embraced and extended technology.

To date, Apple has elicited quite a bit of loathing, not to mention a rather unseemly public display of unresolved psycho-sexual toeing, over its Mini Displayport after it became known the company had implemented High Definition Content Protection (ie DRM) therein to "protect" video content sold through the iTunes Store.

Is this yet another Apple-created dongle that will quickly find its way to the bottom of a drawer to be lamented, loathed and ultimately forgotten like the ADB mouse, NuBus expansion card and, yes, ADC cable? Yes, every standard eventually dies, but Apple seems to be responsible for quite a few that were not only short-lived, but also very expensive...

What's your take?

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Psycho-sexual toeing? Count me in, Sharp!
Posted by Guest Poster #1 on 12/02/08 12:26 PM

And please please please make that an entry in Wikipedia like your "tow the line." 'Cuz that lends it Credence Clearwater, y'dig?
Posted by Guest Poster #2 on 12/02/08 12:32 PM

It's BYOC (bring your own camel)...

M
Posted by M Sharp on 12/02/08 12:35 PM

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