It is a shame. They dropped firewire support in the 4th Gen models so it has been at least 3 years since its been dropped so this is nothing new. USB is more standard because many PC's do not have firewire. So to add fuel to the fire here Steve looks at the bottom line and sees more sales of iPods from PC customers so eliminate the firewire support to cu the cost even more and charge the same prices....
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug McNutt</b> <<a href="mailto:douglist@macnauchtan.com">douglist@macnauchtan.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 05:58 -0700 9/10/07, John Niven wrote:<br>>I just think it's a shame that Apple have dropped the<br>>firewire support, just because they are pandering to<br>>PC users.<br><br>Intel "owns" USB and likely demands royalties.
<br><br>Steve "owns" a competitive product - Firewire<br><br>Steve wants to cut a deal with Intel to use its microprocessors.<br><br>Pandering to politically correct USERS???<br><br>I still want to know the details of AT&T/Cingular's kickback arrangements in re iPhone.
<br><br>All that prepared using a nice ADB keyboard that Apple built while performance was the goal.<br><br>--<br>--> If you are presented a number as a percentage, and you do not clearly understand the numerator and the denominator involved, you are surely being lied to. <--
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