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  • FireWire may finally be dead in macOS 26 & Apple isn't looking back

    sphericspheric
    mikethemartian said:
    quakerotis said:
    FireWire lost out because Apple wanted royalties for its use. Hence the 1394 disparity that made FireWire different on every platform and ultimately doomed.
    It wasn’t because of technological reasons that it lost to USB but because chipmakers like Intel balked  at including it in their chips when Apple wanted royalties.
    Both. Until USB2, FireWire was king for anything multimedia. It made home DV possible, and for a few years, it was the only option. 

    Eventually, the nominal 480 MBps of USB2 was “good enough” and roughly equivalent to FW400, while being cheaper. FW800 was relevant for storage only (audio doesn’t really need the bandwidth), and as CPUs got faster, the CPU dependence of USB ceased to matter. 

    FW800 had a brief window of limited appeal, but the USB roadmap quickly sidelined it entirely. 
    watto_cobra

  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

    sphericspheric
    The point is, that some on this forum have been attacking the president for @lying” about the phone, when in fact, up to this point? He’s said nothing. That is a false claim. 
    Again: 

    https://www.trump.com/media/trump-mobile-launches-a-bold-new-wireless-service

    “Trump Mobile is also excited to announce it will release the “T1 Phone” in August. It is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States”

    That is a lie. It’s on Trump.com — which, I must assume, is the current president’s commercial website. 
    Stabitha_Christie9secondkox2Xedtiredskillsronn

  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

    sphericspheric
    spheric said:
    So you’re saying that you’re NOT okay with Tr*mp outright lying to the public? 

    Just to be clear here. 
    I am saying Y*u made a false claim. Just to be clear here. Still waiting on your source citation. 
    As you wish: 

    https://www.trump.com/media/trump-mobile-launches-a-bold-new-wireless-service

    “Trump Mobile is also excited to announce it will release the “T1 Phone” in August. It is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States”

    That is a lie. It’s on Trump.com — which, I must assume, is the current president’s commercial website. 

    Now, my question stands: you are NOT okay with the president outright lying to the public, correct? 

    It’s a simple yes/no question. 
    Xedronnwatto_cobra

  • FireWire may finally be dead in macOS 26 & Apple isn't looking back

    sphericspheric
    daven said:
    I need to move my data from old FireWire drives to a new drive. Back in the day a 200 mb drive was big!
    If you have hard drives still dating back to the FireWire era, you should have been regularly a religiously copying their contents to multiple newer hard drives in regular intervals since then. 

    Hard drives die even when not used, and recovery is expensive. 

    Get a new set of duplicate drives every five or so years and copy everything over to those, put the ole drives in the basement or a different building, and keep doing that regularly if you value your data. 
    watto_cobra

  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

    sphericspheric
    So you’re saying that you’re NOT okay with Tr*mp outright lying to the public? 

    Just to be clear here. 
    muthuk_vanalingamronn9secondkox2watto_cobra