<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:04 PM, "James R. Coplin" <<a href="mailto:james@ticalun.net">james@ticalun.net</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>It is now. Before Apple caved, the licensing fees added approximately $50</span><br><span>to the price of a motherboard. Manufacturers opted for the massively</span><br><span>cheaper USB. Eventually Apple caved but too late. USB had the market</span><br><span>share.</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br><div>Intel really didn't want FireWire to happen on the PC side, and that was the end of that. It was a success and still continues to be the pro arena, just because grandma does not use it does not mean it was a failure. Don't forget a majority of video and graphic shops run Mac, being a FireWire user just comes along with that.</div><div><br></div><div>UAD for instance just announced a FireWire DSP unit at namm.</div><div><br></div><div>Also let's not forget Apple was one of the first adopters of USB as well, which pretty much killed SCSI.</div></body></html>