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You do know that Apple was a major contributor to the USB C standard? Would other companies really use Lightning even if it were a standard? Did PC manufacture
by scarface74 3y ago
You do know that Apple was a major contributor to the USB C standard?
Would other companies really use Lightning even if it were a standard? Did PC manufacturers embrace FireWire even though it was better? Sony did and Dell did on their high end computers.
- josefx 3y ago> Did PC manufacturers embrace FireWire even though it was better? For a time they seemed to, I had FireWire ports even on computers at the lower end of the price range. What I didn't have where FireWire based gadgets and going by Wikipedia that isn't surprising. FireWire style peer networking seems to force a lot of complexity onto peripherals, with every device being equal. USB on the other hand pushed most of the complexity to the host, making peripherals cheap and easy to implement. Given that I am not surprised that USB pushed firewire out, especially when after it came out that most FireWire implementations had significant security flaws.
- Rediscover 3y agoFireWire on ThinkPads, too... Even one of my low-end TPs (but still a real one, my R61i) has IEEE-1394 (ie, FireWire).