• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    Most likely they’d have to pay royalties to use Bluetooth software on their device, and they deemed the cost too high. The same thing is true for HDMI and other things. They’re proprietary, so sometimes devices won’t support it so they don’t have to pay royalties. (Unrelated, but I honestly don’t understand how HDMI still exists though with DisplayPort being available without the licensing costs. It just controls so much of the market that it can’t die.)

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        11 months ago

        I like the physical plug for display port more too. Is it just because there isn’t some LLC pushing adoption of display port like there is for HDMI?

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        11 months ago

        99% of the people I know have no clue what Display Port is, while even my tech-illiterate grandparents know about HDMI.

        The people you’re ultimately selling to are more important than almost anything else in the equation.