> FireWire seems to be going the way of the wonderful Newton. Wonder how those > who bought these pricey, although brilliant, PDAs feel about the abondonment > of this platform by Apple?
Pretty mad I can tell you :-) But that was Steve vs Skully politics. But I still wish my 60Gb iPod had HW recognition or some type of keyboard because it's too hard to find a particular song when there are 12,000 on it. Just the first 3 letters would be a great help, like in iTunes. <end rant> > I think that Apple should think more than twice before trumpeting some new > technologies which they are not sure to back all the way. Boy, did they ever > flaunt the superiority of Firewire! Maybe they are right, but commercially a > real black hole.... > > I guess that with the new iPods coming with only the USB cable, the writing > was already on the walls for FW? Yes? > > I'd feel sorry to see FW go though ...... I wouldn't worry about that. Firewire/ iLink will be here for another 4 years by which time your drive will be outdated. You *need* it for vidcams. A friend bought the latest JVC tapeless vidcam (mini h/disk) which only has USB2 and it's a royal pain to transfer footage to computer. Even then you can't control it from video editing software (no FF or RW or play). Brett Carboni Tsunami "Our sushi will never be obsolete (it will go off however)"
