Couple of points. First, Apple has form here. I complained when it dropped SCSI because I could no longer use my Zip drive. Dropping ADB for USB meant my fancy keyboard no longer worked. No serial ports now, so how am I going to use my analog modem? Older Mac users can add to the list, I'm sure.
Crucially, it's take about two or three users for Mac users to come round and just get on with life. I suspect many of them, particularly consumers, have long since gone to USB because USB-only drives tend to be cheaper.
And I think Apple expects most of the new machines to be picked up by Vista haters making the switch from a PC. You can bet most of them don't Firewire kit.
That's no excuse to drop Firewire, of course. But the writing was on the wall when Apple stopped building Firewire into the iPod.
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Couple of points. First, Apple has form here. I complained when it dropped SCSI because I could no longer use my Zip drive. Dropping ADB for USB meant my fancy keyboard no longer worked. No serial ports now, so how am I going to use my analog modem? Older Mac users can add to the list, I'm sure.
Crucially, it's take about two or three users for Mac users to come round and just get on with life. I suspect many of them, particularly consumers, have long since gone to USB because USB-only drives tend to be cheaper.
And I think Apple expects most of the new machines to be picked up by Vista haters making the switch from a PC. You can bet most of them don't Firewire kit.
That's no excuse to drop Firewire, of course. But the writing was on the wall when Apple stopped building Firewire into the iPod.