I would say that the fact that firewire is a bus is part of the reason why it fell out of favor. It was designed in a time when packet switching was though to b

I would say that the fact that firewire is a bus is part of the reason why it fell out of favor. It was designed in a time when packet switching was though to be expensive and to cause unacceptable latencies for A/V applications. Just few years after firewire was designed both of these issues were found out to not be as relevant as they at a time seemed. In todays world the firewire's “logical bus from spanning tree” design seems like overly complex waste of bandwidth.