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Really need that PCI bus and the associated weight/size/bulk for...Audio?! Really? Is bulk associated with "Pro"? Does that mean the Hulk is the... oh never mind!
No, Thunderbolt (Light Peak) WAS developed by Apple. It is because they don't want their boxes opened up and messed with. It was pushed onto Intel so the industry would accept it as being an open standard, and not Apples.
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http://9to5mac.com/2009/09/26/intels...tually-apples/ The second paragraph addresses what I have heard about the development from several sources. |
Get your fact straight, Apple didn't developed thunderbolt even Apple admits it.
http://www.apple.com/ca/thunderbolt/
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Powerful technology from a powerful collaboration.
Thunderbolt began at Intel Labs with a simple concept: create an incredibly fast input/output technology that just about anything can plug into. After close technical collaboration between Intel and Apple, Thunderbolt emerged from the lab to make its appearance in Mac computers.
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The close contribution as apple state they did, is in reality that they suggest and asked intel to use copper fibre instead of optical, since with optical (which was the first idea and was what Intel was working on at the time called light pipe) cannot transport electricity. After that as reported by many tech news agency, all they did was to do the initial (like the link I provided earlier) paperwork filling for the trademarks, which they are now handing back to intel.
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Dave Salvator, Senior Communications Manager at Intel.
"As part of our collaboration with Apple, they did some of the initial trademark filings. Intel has full rights to the Thunderbolt trademark now and into the future. The Thunderbolt name will be used going forward on all platforms, irrespective of operating system."
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An further down in the article
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In a nutshell, Apple filed for the original trademark and is now transferring that trademark to Intel. At the same time, Apple will continue to have unrestricted use of the technology. 3rd party implementations such as Sony's desire to use USB Connector instead of DisplayPort one and the eventual change of technology branding (Sony's IEEE1394 a.k.a. Firewire implementation was named i.LINK) will have to be ironed out as the time passes by.
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