TURING FIREWIRE 800 TO USB PORT PC
The first most famous thing about Apple’s original iMac was its radically new industrial design in a world of beige PC boxes. Nor of any where most PC manufacturers didn’t eventually follow its lead. I know of no instances in which feedback from angry customers caused it to reverse its decisions. I don’t know if anyone from the company has ever explained its rationale, but I presume it stems from a desire to save money t remove components and therefore reduce weight and bulk and maybe simply to simply remove clutter from the clusters of ports on its computers. Like I say, Apple would clearly prefer to move too fast rather than too slowly when it comes to eliminating technologies that may be past their prime. Me, I’m impressed that he finds the time to send ’em at all–and what the e-mails lack in diplomacy, they make up for in honesty.) (Side note: Some pundits snipe at Jobs for the fact that his e-mails in response to Apple customers are usually extremely brief. Or who just have trouble giving up technologies that they know and love. Or who like FireWire’s speed for external hard drives. Which is true, but may not pacify folks with camcorders that are FireWire only.
It looks like Steve Jobs isn’t terribly sympathetic: He allegedly sent a brief e-mail to an unhappy customer pointing out that USB has been standard equipment on new HD camcorders for several years.
In our T-Poll on the topic, 49% of respondents are pretty ticked off, and 85% think FireWire still has life in it only 10 percent applaud Apple’s decision. Which is causing a bit of a firestorm this week: The new MacBook has no FireWire port, and some Apple fans are very, very unhappy about that. But it’s just as core to the company’s character that it’s often the first company to kill a technology if it appears to be heading for the dustbin of computing history.
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