Next message: Dan Schwartz: "RE: [WinMac] FireWire (IEEE 1394) comments updated"
On 08/28/2001 09:48, "Dan Schwartz" <Expresso@snip.net> wrote:
>
> About 2-3 years ago here on this WinMac list, I was pretty harsh towards
> Apple's IEEE 1394 (FireWire) IP licensing terms. Well, it looks like Apple
> paid
> attention: Given the pressure from Intel's competing USB 2.0, Apple reduced
> the
> licensing cost 75%
> <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2807924,00.html> to about 25
> cents; and now 1394 ports are popping up on more and more PC's -- Like my own
> VAIO notebook.
Dan, while I understand your happiness at this, you missed some points:
1) That 75 cents a port reduction happened a few years ago
2) You only pay the quarter a port to use the trademarked name "FireWire".
If you want to call it "iLink", then you license it via Sony. If you want to
call it "IEEE-1394", then you deal with the IEEE. Apple only gets paid for
FireWire
3) USB 2.0 is hardly competition for FireWire, and when the change was
announced, it didn't exist. And as of right now, I know of exactly one USB
2.0 product. Big market...almost as big as the pre-iMac USB 1.X market.
4) ZDNet is a crappy source for accurate Apple News at all.
>
> This is a Good Development, because now more of those previously esoteric
> FireWire peripherals can be used on greater than the 7% of the market that is
> Mac based. Key to all of this, though, is robust drivers: How many of us have
> had fits with Toast not finding a balky CD-R deck?!
Um...considering that Ti and a couple of other companies, like Sony, helped
develop IEEE-1394, this has been the case with Sony machines for a while
now. Glad to see you're up on things. And Toast 5.0.1 has been flawless for
me...better by far than iTunes.
>
> Damned if it ain't that "devil" from FireWire's "devil in the details"
> throwing a turd in the punchbowl...
Only yours man, the rest of us are cooking along nicely.
john
--
"I have not yet begun to fight."
- John Paul Jones (aboard the Bon Homme Richard),Sept. 1779
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