{"id":4102,"date":"2008-10-17T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2008-10-17T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:23:15","slug":"macbooks-and-firewire-steve-jobs-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2008\/10\/17\/macbooks-and-firewire-steve-jobs-response\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBooks and FireWire: Steve Jobs&#8217; Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/apple-macbook-oct-2008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/images\/tp\/apple-macbook-oct08.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Redesigned MacBook 2008\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a> A few days ago, I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2008\/10\/15\/apple-macbook-redesigned\/\">long-winded rant<\/a> about Apple dropping FireWire from the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/apple-macbook-oct-2008\">MacBooks<\/a>.  A lot of other people have been ranting about it as well, going by <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/category.jspa?categoryID=218\">Discussions.Apple.com<\/a> and various other blogs and Mac-oriented forums.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs has responded to one Mac user:  &#8220;<em>Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years use USB 2<\/em>&#8221; and followed it up with &#8220;<em>The new HD camcorders start around $500<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s typical Jobs &#8211; he doesn&#8217;t mince words, but I think  Apple should have handled it better or should have been a lot more upfront.  I was in an Apple Store last week, and while waiting, twice I heard Apple Store employees pushing FireWire devices (external  hard drives).  An ExpressCard slot would have been the best solution.  In the past, when they retired a standard, you knew it.  There was no doubt, because Apple made a big issue out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Now people are finding out that Apple is phasing out FireWire from emails sent by Steve Jobs on his iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/08\/10\/16\/jobs_responds_to_outrage_over_macbooks_missing_firewire.html\">AppleInsider<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I had a long-winded rant about Apple dropping FireWire from the new MacBooks. A lot of other people have been ranting about it as well, going by Discussions.Apple.com and various other blogs and Mac-oriented forums. Steve Jobs has responded to one &#8230; <a title=\"MacBooks and FireWire: Steve Jobs&#8217; Response\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/2008\/10\/17\/macbooks-and-firewire-steve-jobs-response\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MacBooks and FireWire: Steve Jobs&#8217; Response\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,12,19,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.small-laptops.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}