Apple Offers No-fee Mini DisplayPort Licenses

Apple has loosened their tight turtlenecks abit, offering no-fee Mini DisplayPort licenses to parties who are interested in designing products around the new specification. It is hoped that this move will bring the fledgling display connector to mainstream consciousness. After all, they’re pretty confident that most people would need resolutions of up to 2,560 x 1,600 on their desks, a resolution that is commonly used on 30″ displays. Do you think third parties will pick up this license? Well, it would be interesting to see Apple’s train get derailed for a while to give Microsoft a breather, whether it is a hardware or software aspect, but then again, we shouldn’t have such nefarious thoughts about companies, right?