First off, let me explain why I think that way.
2009 at the IDF, Intel presented "Light Peak", I were excited, I thought that this new Interface will be awesome, I mean, Intel is bringing it to market. With one cable made out of just four fibers (two per direction, expected 10Gb/s per fiber) you could get more data-throughput than a PCI-E 2.0 x4 (~2GB/s). With just two cables you could run an external GPU just fine.
This would not be necessairy for desktops, yes, but imagine how versatile your Laptop could be.
While you are on the go you could have a slim Laptop with more than enough horsepower for little games such as farmville or just a bit of office-works. But, when you get home to your desk, you would only need to plug in the powercord, and two Light-Peak-Cables, and booom, your 24" 1080p Display is running from the GTX570, your mouse/keyboard, your soundsystem, Ethernet-Cable and everything else would be connected from the external device just a bit bigger than the graphics-card itself. It could also contain a internal HDD or such things. Yeah big expectations back in 2009-2011 :D . BUT NO, look what Intel has done :mellow: :angry: .
Instead of bringing us this great piece of technology, they collaborate with Apple, make a fucking active-copper-cable for 30-50 Bucks with just 2m (6,5ft) in length and the lame excuse that optic-fibers are to expansive, only running with 10Gbps (instead of 20Gbps with four fibers).
Until now, 2014, Intel did not have the guts to bring us this great technology.
I still think that optic-fibers are the way to go in the future, we reached the limits of copper-cables, I mean look how thick an 15m (49ft) HDMI-Cable is, nearly a centimeter (~3/8in), a optic-cable could be 100m (328ft) long and still be thinner than an unshielded CAT-5-cable at 10-20 times the speed.
I hope I could show you why I think that way,
thanks for reading.
p.s.: Sorry if I made a view mistakes, I am not native English, I hope it wasn´t a pain in the ass to read.