{"id":413,"date":"2008-10-16T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/?p=413"},"modified":"2008-10-16T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T09:06:25","slug":"no-firewire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/no-firewire\/","title":{"rendered":"No Firewire!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re: I think its really a shame, Apple dropped the Firewire bus. There are still a lot of people that require Firewire to digitize camera data. I believe Apple dropped Firewire because of their endless greed to get more money. Now people will have to by the the MacBook Pros! I am very disappointed in Mr. Steve Jobs. What a policy… What image you will get from this announcement…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do not agree. Read John Gruber’s<\/a> post about Tim Cooke<\/a>. I think Apple is making business decisions based on the data they have. They say repeatedly that they are listening to their customers. Well just because you and I might want Firewire does not mean the MacBook folks are demanding it.<\/p>\n

Here is the thing: Apple may be wrong. But it is not smart to bet against Apple. They have been correct far more than they have been incorrect.<\/p>\n

Or another way to think about it is this: The diff between the low end MacBook<\/a> and the low end MacBook Pro<\/a> is $700 ($200 between the high end MacBook). If I need Firewire will I be impressed with the OTHER<\/a><\/strong> advances of the MacBook Pro (larger screen, higher resolution, extra graphic chip, larger hard drive, Express Card slot and illuminated keyboard)?<\/p>\n

My thinking is Apple knows what it is doing. I do not like their choice to drop Firewire because I LOVE recommending the $1100 current MacBook for most folks (cuz it fits what they want to do perfectly). But every single one of them knows that if you get a cheaper (non-Pro) model you will have to give something up. Me thinks most folks will not mind giving up Firewire.<\/p>\n

Side note: The film people I advise all require Firewire (Note:<\/strong> This is the much faster Firewire 800) and will now have to drop $2k instead of $1.3k. More money for Apple cuz those folks are >>NOT<< going to be purchasing any PC laptops.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Re: I think its really a shame, Apple dropped the Firewire bus. There are still a lot of people that require Firewire to digitize camera data. I believe Apple dropped Firewire because of their endless greed to get more money. Now people will have to by the the MacBook Pros! I am very disappointed in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}