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Apple Acquires Zayante

Posted by pudge on from the i-want-plasmawire dept.

pinqkandi writes "Apple purchased Zayante, a big name in the FireWire/i.Link/IEEE 1394 community. Apple hopes to increase its FireWire presence with this purchase, or, in their own words, 'By acquiring Zayante, Apple is extending its commitment to FireWire as the premiere, high-speed digital interface solution.' Interestingly enough, Zayante works a great deal with Windows FireWire integration ... Windows-compatible iPod anyone?"

3 of 26 comments (clear)

  1. old news by cappadocius · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I thought XPlay settled the whole iPod for Windoze thing.

    btw: this has been up on Apple's news page for quite some time. The article is dated 12 days ago.

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  2. Terrible move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This now puts Apple in direct competition with Oxford Semi, LSI, and TI - the other Firewire chip makers. Even if they'd never ever ever put non-Zayante chips in macs, Apple is now trying to compete with Oxford and the others for Sony and everyone else's Firewire dollars now that USB2.0 is out. Not that it's the same thing for all uses, but it will give many pause to consider it, and it will work for 95% of what computer users would want a high-speed interface for. They want more people using Firewire, not less. Or that's what I used to think....

  3. Re:Eeeew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yea, Apple is going to buy up TI next... then they'll only have two other major corporations to absorb before they hold a "monopoly" on a technology they own the patent for.

    Wow, when you look at it like that, the enormity of your stupidity comes right to the fore.

    Go reboot your commodity piece of shit.