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This is just plain wrong. FireWire was part of what made the first iPods so great, but the runaway iPod success made Apple an iPod company and PC users who domi
by m0llusk 9y ago
This is just plain wrong. FireWire was part of what made the first iPods so great, but the runaway iPod success made Apple an iPod company and PC users who dominate tech markets wanted USB iPods because it is what they had and critically because USB was cheaper. If anyone is to blame then it is Microsoft and PC makers for not adopting FireWire, but their customers did not want a more expensive alternative.
- mruszczyk 9y agoThe article covers this. Intel was going to build FireWire into their chipset which would make the technology ubiquitous but at the time Steve Jobs swapped the licensing model from a flat fee to pricing per port which pushed Intel away. If Intel had bought into FireWire PCs would have the port.