I'm with you Griff. Honestly, Apple is really going downhill fast. On Dec 12, 2005, at 4:58 PM, John Griffin wrote: > It makes sense to me. Since FW800 is backward compatible to FW400, > the lower end gear will not be orphaned by this move (not like the > floppy and SCSI abandonment). Let’s face it, Apple has stopped > being the Leader of the “Think Different” crowd and has moved into > line with the “Me Too” crowd. > > So, I expect along with the rest of the Intel world, Apple will > eventually move away from its once radical and inventive > technologies (such as FireWire) and will gradually slink into the > beige, vanilla, blah, tasteless USB world. > > Personally, it makes me want to throw up!