Why FireWire failed the market dominance


Introduction

FireWire allows users to connect storage devices and other peripherals to host computers, giving unparalled flexibility in data capture,storage, transportation, and backup capabilities. FireWire allows devices to be hot swapped from one computer to another. Hot swapping allows FireWire storage devices (as well as other peripherals, such as video cameras) to be physically attached to a FireWire port,automatically mounted on the desktop, accessed, and then unmounted /disconnected at the command of the user.

Causes of failure

Apple has been always greedy and charged 1$ per port royalty for devices using their technology. Later on the royalties claim was revoked , bad reputation can not be washed off that quickly. Year later USB 2.0 arrived that had no additional royalties claims if the 1.0 version was already paid and computer industry rapidly adopted the newcomer.

With Apple serial ports, ethernet, SCSI, IDE, and USB, speed upgrades had pretty much been transparent to the end user. The connectors remained the same, and backward compatibility wasn’t an issue.Although FireWire 400 devices are 100% compatible with FireWire 800, special cable or port adapter is required, and as Apple has now moved all Macs to FireWire 800, migrating FireWire 400 peripherals to FireWire 800 Macs is an extra expense that just grates on longtime Mac users.

 Conclusion

FireWire in the begging was a great standart with good bandwidth and aplication. Poor marketing and company policies ruined the future of FireWire. Comparing to USB FireWire was faster and more expensibile. Due to Apples greed the start of FireWire was very slow and year after it could not compete with rapidly growing popularity of USB 2.0 standart. USB 2.0 was not faster , but it was cheaper and somewhat user friendly. Apple upgrading and updating strategy was the last nail to the coffin of FireWires market dominance. Those factors determined the future of the FireWire.

Why FireWire Failed – but Thunderbolt Won’t

FireWire Port Failures in Host Computers and Peripheral Devices

 

 

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