A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed

Technologizer writes "Some folks are outraged over the lack of FireWire in the new MacBook released this week. But Apple wouldn't be Apple if it didn't move faster than any other computer company to kill technologies that may be past their prime. And history usually validates its decisions. We've posted a decade's worth of examples that prove the point."

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Can you SMELL the bullshit across the tubes yet?

[Toll_Free]

Blah blah blah.

Jesus, stop sucking Apple's dick long enough to stop writing dick articles.

I don't think I've ever seen someone so enamored with a hardware vendor than this idiot.

Apple didn't "phase out" the 8" floppy... It was on it's way out when Apple was STILL making them.

Apple and the fireware debacle is (IMHO) nothing more than an attempt (and a DAMN good one at that) to get people to upgrade their laptops to the pro version. Pure and simple. Not everyone NEEDS firewire, so why implement it in a beginners, so to speak, computer. I have it on 3 desktops and a laptop. I've used it less than 20 times... Going back probably to 2003. Yeah, it's a real deal-breaker.

The flip side, I use USB daily. So do most Apple users. Wait, what? Yeah, I tried pluggin my IPOD into the 1394 bus, but nothing worked right. Same with the IPhone.

Apple is going to decide what is used and what isn't. Couldn't be that Apple was trying to fuck a consumer into a more expensive laptop, could it?

This 'article' isn't anything more than attempted damage control by Apple FanBois, is it?

Sheesh.

--Toll_Free

paranoia

[reiisi]

I strongly suspect that Jobs is acting on iNTEL orders to push the world to USB.

iNTEL really, really, really, really wants your pipes. All of them.

They want to get the toll and they want to be able to write the rules of the road.