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Apple Backing Away From FireWire

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

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.

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  1. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why bother with firewire for iPods considering licensing and complexity added?

  2. Slashdot backing away from the truth. by cyberlotnet · · Score: 1, Troll

    In todays news Slashdot backed even further away from reporting the truth and instead will focus on poor conjecture and invalid facts

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    1. Re:Slashdot backing away from the truth. by Stevyn · · Score: 0, Troll

      You should've been here for the November elections.

  3. This really sucks. by Sheetrock · · Score: -1, Troll
    I've gotten used to the high-quality digital transfers to the iPos over Firewire. Granted, the audio has lost some integrity due to its non-FLAC compression scheme, but that's all the more reason not to downgrade the transmission fidelity.

    USB2 is good for joysticks, mice, and keyboards, but for my money Firewire is the best choice for quality A/V output hands down. I might as well listen to tape otherwise.

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  4. Apple "innovation" fails again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whenever Apple tries to innovate anything they fail. They excel when taking somebody else's idea and mass-marketing it to the pseudo-sophisticate crowd who lap it up like sheep.

    Or did you think Apple invented the online music store?

  5. Denial by SiliconEntity · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm seeing a lot of denial here. Nobody wants to accept that Apple is moving away from this technology.

    Apple championed Firewire. They gambled on it. They were the first to use this kind of high speed connection technology.

    But the gamble hasn't paid off. Firewire has not spread successfully beyond Apple. PC's have nearly unanimously gone with USB2 instead.

    At one time external disk drives primarily used Firewire. Today they mostly use USB2. Firewire drives are mainly targeted at Mac users. They tend to cost more, as with other Mac-specific technology, because it is a much smaller segment of the market.

    The writing is on the wall for Firewire. USB2 has won. This latest move by Apple itself, champion of Firewire, just further underscores the reality of the situation.

    Mac purists don't want to accept that Apple's gamble has failed. They deny the reality that is in front of them, and comfort themselves by quoting specs, just like the old Beta VCR purists did.

    But all the specs in the world don't matter when the market moves away from a technology. That's what is happening with Firewire.

  6. Who cares about every little thing Apple does by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who cares about those commufascists who sue their fans and killed BeOS?

  7. Apple's just another... by Gilmoure · · Score: 0, Troll

    ..commodity computer company that only supports the lowest common denominator. All they do is pay the Chinese to assemble generic 'white' boxes. When was the last time Apple created anything original. They just repackage other people's tech and hire funky marketers.

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