Interesting article about Google and h.264

[Peter Korsten]

Op 17-1-2011 0:01, Jay Vaughan schreef:

> a) Power consumption and allocation requires arbitration
> b) CPU must be involved in transfers
> c) *Very* PC-specific - device-to-device transfers technically 'not allowed' by the spec
> d) Has only the 'advantage' that its now become a massively standard peripheral standard
>
> Firewire is better in so many ways, but lost out to peripheral marketing departments.  My main desire is for device-to-device to be possible in the peripheral buss, but then that wouldn't be 'peripheral', and thus 'profitable' to too many people, so of course we get the lesser value in the end .. just another way that the mob selects mediocrity instead of substance.

The big advantage of USB is that it's much simpler to implement on the 
client side. You don't really want to connect a keyboard or a mouse via 
Firewire.

The reason that Firewire isn't used for those things that USB really 
shouldn't be used for is squarely Apple's fault.

- Peter