Re: Cutting Edge

Michael Long <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ipod.ephpod
Message-ID <167545234.1051904993@[192.168.1.110]>
Of course they could have put BOTH ports on there...but Apple took the easy 
way out

--On Friday, May 02, 2003 5:28 PM -0500 Michael Richmond 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Like Eduardo I liked the elegance of the way the firewire port was used
> on the original iPods. However, I suspect moving to support USB
> necessitated the use of a proprietary connector (unless Apple wanted to
> ship different USB and Firewire versions which results in different
> problems).
>
> Lets face it, support for USB is aimed at building the Windows market
> which makes good business sense. I'm just hoping that they have designed
> the new connector to support future growth so that it does not need to be
> changed with each new iPod model allowing investment in accessories to
> be carried forward.




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