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I think it was more that Sony couldn't call its bullshit plug FireWire because it lacked a required FireWire feature.
by ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
I think it was more that Sony couldn't call its bullshit plug FireWire because it lacked a required FireWire feature.
- MBCook 3y agoThe feature was the power pin. You couldn’t power a device from that tiny plug (on either side). I do understand why they did it. Sony is the master of miniaturization and wanted things to be small as possible. So the idea of making one of their little tiny handheld camcorders noticeably bigger just for a single connector was probably a non-starter for them. So they made up their own and then used their size to force it to become a part of the standard.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoYes, I noted that: "whose connector lacked power and required a physical adapter."