David W. Fenton wrote:
[snip]>
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?
My Toshiba laptop (and most laptops I looked at 18 months ago when I
bought mine) had firewire connectors.
Most video cameras come with firewire connectors.
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?
Microsoft hasn't put its weight behind firewire technology, preferring
to support its own USB standard.
--
David H. Bailey
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