Wow, Apple has actually released its all too common death grip on a technology and allowed it to become a standard? Seems un-possible, but there it is: the stock mini-display port on the new Macs is going to be an industry standard:

The Video Electronics Standards Association, or VESA, said last week as CES began that DisplayPort 1.2 should include Mini DisplayPort as part of the DisplayPort 1.2 specification.

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It's not known whether the officially approved Mini DisplayPort will involve the full range of features from 1.2, but it will let any company building a computer or graphics card adopt the port with the blessing of the standards group and know that it will work with other 1.2-supporting hardware.

I'd say that means Apple is continuing to move into the consumer space - they need to have lots of devices that work with their stuff if they want to make that play.

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