Petition to Apple for iPod FireWire support posted online – February 23, 2005Īpple knifing its own FireWire baby by pushing USB 2.0 as iPod’s primary connectivity option – February 23, 2005 Griffin debuts Dock400 FireWire cable for Apple iPods – February 24, 2005
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What could be the harm in that?Īpple disrespects its own Mac users with iPod’s FireWire fiasco – February 24, 2005 Apple should put the combo cable in the boxes now and do the move to USB 2.0 only in 6-12 months, if that’s what they want to do. We know Apple likes to move fast, but this “USB 2.0 included/pay if you want FireWire” move was made a bit too soon. If you want to switch iPod over to USB 2.0, that’s fine, but perhaps you should wait until the majority of Mac owners have realistically had a chance to acquire USB 2.0 capable Macs? After all, it was Apple that just recently started adding USB 2.0 to their Mac computer lines. Are there margin issues? Does it cost a few pennies more per cable? Was this just an oversight, a tiny miscalculation? Wouldn’t this cable be a better solution for your Mac users? You do care about your Mac-using iPod owners, right, Apple? MacDailyNews Take: Why isn’t this cable in the iPod boxes instead of just a USB 2.0 cable, Apple? You already have the cable. Compatible with iPod with Click Wheel, iPod mini and iPod with Dock Connector. Connect the FireWire cable up to the iPod or iPod mini power adapter to charge while syncing. The iPod Dock Connector to FireWire and USB 2.0 Cable offers up to 480Mbps data transfer for quickly loading an entire music library on iPod or iPod mini.
WHAT IS A FIREWIRE CABLE FOR MAC WINDOWS
Use an extra iPod Dock Connector to FireWire and USB 2.0 Cable for charging and syncing your iPod or iPod photo to your Mac or Windows PC.
This way, Apple only has to provide one cable, but no one is left out. It retails for $19 – the same price as the individual FW and USB cables. What Apple should have done is put the FireWire+USB Combo cable in the iPod mini/photo’s box. MDN reader “macnut222” has suggested an interesting solution to this issue in a thread to a related article: What’s the problem, you ask? Well, Mac users who have machines that are less than a year or two old have Macs that do not have USB 2.0. The music players will still work with FireWire, if a cord is purchased separately, but only a USB 2.0 cable comes with the device. With the latest iPods, Apple is no longer including a FireWire cable in the box.
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