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I was really surprised that Apple chose to unveil thunderbolt in a press release rather than at an event. They'd been working with Intel for years and at the en
by daimyoyo 16y ago
I was really surprised that Apple chose to unveil thunderbolt in a press release rather than at an event. They'd been working with Intel for years and at the end all it garnered was "oh by the way the new MB pros will have lightpeak I/O ports built in and we're calling it thunderbolt." Couldn't they have waited the few weeks until the iPad announcement and unveiled it then? Apple missed a huge opportunity for free press(they were already there for the iPad, why not tell them about your revolutionary new I/O technology?) but oh well. Guess even Apple drops the ball from time to time.
- dot 16y agothe ipad 2 was on the front page of thousands of free daily commuter papers across the globe. nobody cares about a new port. event or not.
- djhworld 16y agoWhile I really like the idea of 10GB/s transfer speeds, I can't help but think Thunderbolt will go down the path of Firewire. It's called Unviersal Serial Bus for many reasons, but I still think USB will remain king, regardless of transfer speeds
- DougBTX 16y agoYou could look at it the other way around: they were getting good press for the iPad2, why dilute it with news about a port update?
- efields 16y agoLightpeak is impressive, but there's barely any hardware out there for it. What could they do to show it off? Show it transfering gigs of movies between some $500 lacie drive in seconds? It might be impressive to us, but until lightpeak hardware drops to a consumer-friendly pricepoint, its really nothing that will help sell products to the average consumer.
- gnok 16y agoNot really. It would look extremely awkward to announce a new port standard and then announce a brand new device that does not have that port, nor comes with a dongle to convert. No ball dropped here.