Apple announced a new iPod product today, the 5th generation iPod (a.k.a the iPod video). With it they took away all previous support for firewire cables, you can’t even buy an extra cable to use it. They also did this with the upgrade from the iPod mini to the iPod nano. And that leaves the iPod shuffle, which I think we can safely say will never have firewire support.
Make sure to read this image closely, or click it for a better view.
Is it just me or shouldn’t 5th generation iPods be a step up from anything below that, or is Apple just going in reverse?
A “step up”?
Is Firewire so superior to USB?
Yes, it is much faster, other than that the iPod looks pretty good.
The beauty of Firewire to me isn’t being able to get marginally faster speeds, but being able to use the firewire port on my powerbook instead of using one of the two precious USB ports. I mean, if you have a mouse in one that only leaves one, which has to support all your other peripherals.
AlexTan,
Please tell us where you got this image. The ‘No Firewire Support’ line is obviously photoshopped in. Folling the link to the Apple site, there is the same image without the last line of ‘No Firewire Support’.
Please send a link supporting the article, else, the readers may think that you made it up.
Hey AlexTan, make sure you select a category when you post. It throws off the pages if there is no category set.
cliche, I did photoshop it I thought that was clear, and jeremey thanks for the advice
I agree that new versions of any product should a step up and not down, but I think firewire is a dying plug so, for me at least, it’s understandable.
Yup. Firewire is pretty much as good as dead. As smart as Steve Jobs is, it was definately a mistake when he decided to charge a buck per port *before* it became standardized on pcs. If there was no charge, it’s pretty clear that it would’ve came out on top, as it was far and away superior to USB of that era and had the backing of Apple, Sony, and most importantly, Intel. Charging for it pissed Intel off, who then decided to develope an imporved USB2.0. Firewire is still superior to USB2.0, but only marginally so now–and superior technology alone doesn’t win the marketplace.