>"USB wasn't necessary invented as a competitor to Firewire, but it's not a myth that it became one, and it won in the end." That is a contradiction. In the e

>"USB wasn't necessary invented as a competitor to Firewire, but it's not a myth that it became one, and it won in the end." That is a contradiction. In the end, what defeated Firewire (by supplanting its ports) was Thunderbolt, not USB. Machines with Firewire had USB as well, because they served different purposes and were not in competition. I have some machines with both Firewire and Thunderbolt, and later machines with Thunderbolt. (They all have USB, but nobody is connecting 4k displays via USB.) Edit: Ah, I see this is a lost cause. This is falling into the "everything PC is good and everything Apple is bad" HN narrative. No point in attempting to point out history either, it appears.