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Apple reducing FireWire’s role

By Rafe, February 24, 2005

Wednesday’s new iPod photo and iPod mini models mark a shift in strategy for maker Apple:  they are the first iPods besides the iPod shuffle to come without FireWire cables.  C|NET News.com discusses this odd move for the company that created the FireWire standard.


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thinkback

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I personally don’t think this is an odd thing at all… Apple primarily sell iPods to windows users, windows users 95% of the time have USB2, and only 20% of the time have firewire… Nothing odd about it.

Beelsebob Beelsebob's Profile Feb. 24, 2005
3:50 pm

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I think John Gruber explains it well enough:

http://daringfireball.net/2005/02/firewire_ hysteria

Mar. 01, 2005
4:55 pm

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