Yes it is like another firewire in that it is peer to peer but it is sans the license fee to Apple and can interface to keyboards and printers and plethora of other usb devices. These two issues will probably the deciding factors cost sensitive consumer items that can only have one port like a pda, digital camera, hostenabled photoprinter (sucks images off of camera and prints) etc., and then also be able to connect to a pc.
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Yes it is like another firewire in that it is peer to peer but it is sans the license fee to Apple and can interface to keyboards and printers and plethora of other usb devices. These two issues will probably the deciding factors cost sensitive consumer items that can only have one port like a pda, digital camera, hostenabled photoprinter (sucks images off of camera and prints) etc., and then also be able to connect to a pc.