Apple Backing Away From FireWire

farmdwg was one of several readers to submit stories about Apple backing away from FireWire. The latest generation of iPods no longer ship with FireWire cables, but instead use USB 2... although FireWire can still be purchased seperately.

Comments

Bad Mistake

[Anonymous Coward]

USB 2.0 sucks when compared to Firewire.

Compatibility

[Canadian_Daemon]

I am glad for this, as firewire is less common than USB 2. The sooner we all agree on a single standard the better.

Re:Compatibility

[oftheapes]

then: all iPods required a Mac, and all Macs had firewire now: they don't have to because USB 2.0 is decent enough to handle the data rates and there are still more PCs than Macs, and more PC owners are buying iPods. Apple still includes Firewire support for all of their equipment outside of the shuffle - you may have to buy a cable, but most of the people who would use firewire already have the cables then: all external HDs were Firewire because the only people who used them were Mac owners, especially for video editing now: there are more USB HDs, but people who do need intensive and solid disk access still insist on Firewire...very very few people who originally needed Firewire will give up Firewire. then: there were very few people buying DVcams now: everyone who buys a camcorder buys a DVcam, and more people are buying camcorders than ever before so guess what! a heck of a lot more people WILL care about DV then you think...that market segment is exploding. And a heck of a lot more people will also care about Macs then you think. i'm not saying it's a conspiracy, merely a concious decision to try and force Apple's hand to inferior equipment. If Apple wants hardware manufacturers to built peripherals, the manufacturers will of course attempt to get Apple to do it on their terms, meaning USB 2.0 since they don't have to make seperate versions for both platforms. That doesn't influence Apple in the sense that they'll ever drop firewire since they know their customers will still insist on firewire. It also doesn't influence manufacturers who survive on purchases by Mac owners, who tend to be far more demanding of the hardware they use than the average PC user. as more people get digital tv boxes, firewire will continue to expand. as more people buy DV cams, firewire will expand. as more people buy Macs(and the market share is hardly shrinking) firewire will expand. but we'll see who's correct in a year, and I'll probably be the one having a laugh.

FireWire, We hardly knew ye.

[TripMaster Monkey]

Looks like FireWire is going to join that august fraternity of Murdered Tech, alongside K56Flex, DivX, and Beta.

Re:Backing Away?

[drinkypoo]

Interestingly, SCSI stands for Small Computer System Interface. Note the top hit. Whoever put the entry in saying Serial interface is an asshat who doesn't know what they're talking about - just like you. SCSI comes in three basic flavors: Narrow SCSI (which comes in normal (5MB/sec), fast (10MB/sec), and ultra (20MB/sec), Differential SCSI which I believe is 40MB/sec, and Low Voltage Differential SCSI, which comes in LVD (80MB/sec), Ultra160 (160MB/sec), and Ultra320 (320MB/sec) flavors. All of them are parallel; Narrow SCSI uses 8 lines for data and Wide uses 16 lines. All forms of SCSI run a ground in between each data wire in order to reduce noise.

In other words, you have no idea what you're talking about. Did you buy that UID, or did you just find slashdot early because you knew someone with a clue?

Re:Denial

[NutscrapeSucks]

Actually you do blanket almost every even mildly anti-Apple Slashdot story with Pro-Apple "spin". You've made a half-dozen posts over something as pointless as a firewire cable. It's really too bad (or too sad) you aren't being paid, because you've obviously made it a very important job for yourself.