Steve Jobs says farewell, my lovely FireWire
Down these mean streets a man must go, and if he's carrying a modern camcorder, then it's going to have USB 2.0, not FireWire. And that, in a nutshell, is why it's farewell, my lovely, to FireWire - according to no less an authority than Steve Jobs.
There's been plenty of outrage and despondency from would-be Apple MacBook buyers over the fact that the latest versions of the low-end laptops don't have FireWire, the high-speed data transfer system invented by Apple and Sony that basically kicks USB's bum (even USB2.0). It's being taken out the back and getting an icepick in the neck.
And for why? Because, as Jobs explained to an upset customer who emailed him, and reproduced at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (which says it's checked the headers; we'll take it on trust), "Actually, all of the new HD camcorders ofthe past few years use USB 2."
