Interesting article about Google and h.264

[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:04 PM, "James R. Coplin" <james at ticalun.net> wrote:

> It is now.  Before Apple caved, the licensing fees added approximately $50
> to the price of a motherboard.  Manufacturers opted for the massively
> cheaper USB.  Eventually Apple caved but too late.  USB had the market
> share.

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.

UAD for instance just announced a FireWire DSP unit at namm.

Also let's not forget Apple was one of the first adopters of USB as well, which pretty much killed SCSI.
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