> They're handing a win to DisplayPort.
And that would be bad how? DP is an excellent standard and royalty free.
And that would be bad how? DP is an excellent standard and royalty free.
It's protecting your standard from being used by others when wide adoption is the only thing that differentiates your standard from others
i.e. they're shooting themselves in the foot
IIRC it had full duplex unlike USB 1/2, it launched well before USB with a fast 400Mbps transfer speed and its hardware controller was sophisticated enough that it could work without much intervention from the OS.
But looking into the history, the patent situation was indeed grim. Likely that's what kept it in an Apple and DV niche until USB caught up.