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I think you may have overlooked the other side of those cables in your examples. While one side of the cable was FireWire or USB, the interface on the device w
by vlan0 6y ago
I think you may have overlooked the other side of those cables in your examples. While one side of the cable was FireWire or USB, the interface on the device was propriety. And that was true for over a decade worth of iPods, iPhones, and iPads.
- musicale 6y ago> While one side of the cable was FireWire or USB, the interface on the device was propriety The original iPod was FireWire-only. The 30-pin dock connector was developed to enable USB and FireWire connectivity as well as docking.
- gumby 6y agoI still have an original iPad and it had a big FireWire connector on it. It was FW on both ends. They rapidly switched to USB (w/30 pin at other end) in order to open up the PC market to the* iPod. * I refuse to follow Apples pretentious (proprietary?) refusal to use the article “the” with the iPod and the iPhone.
- vlan0 6y agoBy big FireWire, do you mean Apple's 30-pin connector? I don't remember any iPads that came with a 4/6-pin interface.
- gumby 6y agoSorry I meant iPod, but I guess that word is uncommon enough that autocorrect changed it to iPad. And it's too late for me to edit. It's surprisingly hard to find photos of the old connector; here's one: https://regmedia.co.uk/2011/09/27/ipod_1.jpg https://regmedia.co.uk/2011/09/27/ipod_1.jpg (I do still own an original iPad too, and use it)
- soperj 6y agoYou do realize that firewire was an apple developed standard right? Very few computers had a firewire port aside from apple computers.