I have no clue as to why it's not supported more. However, a lot of
newer motherboards do have firewire on them now. I imagine PC makers,
and it's users, are slow adapting to anything new. Look at PC cases.
They haven't changed in 20 years. Still boxes. They still have PS/2
connectors. And Parallel ports (though it looks like Dell isn't offering
Parallel ports on computers anymore)
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsdt_410?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
There are a lot of OPEN, non-proprietary things out there (bluetooth for
example). I just thing the majority of PC users, mainly Windows users,
would stick with something forever......like having software written in
1992 still run on their current system..........
David W. Fenton wrote:
OK, if you're so smart, explain to me, if it's a fully open non-
proprietary standard, it's not installed by default on any PCs except
Apple and Sony? Why is it that the only hardware manufacturers who
routinely provide firewire ports are the ones who created the
standard?
I'm not saying this is a good thing -- I think it's terrible, since
it's a very good technology. But my surmise is the reason it's not
universal (like the vastly inferior and unreliably USB) is that it
was perceived as (or was) being controlled by two companies for their
own interests.
Maybe my explanation is wrong.
Maybe you can provide a better explanation of why such an obviously
superior technology (this I won't dispute) is not universally
supported?
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