> **At a press conference earlier this morning, Intel offered additional information about its new Thunderbolt interconnect technology being pioneered by Apple in its latest batch of MacBook Pros, noting Apple will have a year long head start in deploying the technology.**
via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/24/intel_details_thunderbolt_as_exclusive_to_apple_until_2012.html)
I actually think this is a bad thing for Apple. Not sure why they’d want exclusive rights to Thunderbolt, when it’s in everyone’s best interest to get this port into as many devices as humanly possible as quickly as possible.
Hard drive, Audio I/O box, monitor makers etc. won’t take the new port seriously until there are enough computers out there sporting it. So why would Apple want to hold back adoption on the PC side?
