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Originally Posted by Francis Vaughan  Firewire does seem to be somewhat marginalised - not for technical reasons - but commercial. History shows that Apple were perhaps too greedy for just a few moments too long, and by making it worth Intel's while to create a competitor they assured its marginalisation. |
Technically, I'd disagree with that - there are major problems with support of firewire on chipsets, to the extent that many manufacturers recommend specific makes (e.g. Texas instruments) to get correct connection to the device-in-question. SO either the spec itself is deficient (not specific enough) or the hardware manufacturers are to blame. At any rate, I've never seen anybody have the same kinds of make-specific problems on USB 2.
Course, I've never had a problem with firewire, so...
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