FireWire was a key feature of the original iPod, which used its high data transfer rate to differentiate from MP3 players of the time, which downloaded music over USB 1.0 at a snail’s pace. Developed before USB and particularly adept at transferring the video files of the day, it appeared on many camcorders and Sony VAIO PCs, but saw little support beyond that. WikipediaĪpple’s first rival to USB was FireWire, also known as IEEE 1394. Often, these efforts would enjoy limited success. With its 2.0 and 3.0 updates, USB would become ever faster and more widespread, but Apple would try to compete with it using technologies that were developed closer to home. While every Mac since the iMac has included at least one USB port, Apple seemed to increasingly consider it as a necessary check-off item, a nod to compatibility for those who didn’t need or care for superior performance. The solid-and-hollow stacked rectangles of its “A” connector now appear in everything from alarm clocks to airplanes. In a hint of what was to become the company’s ability to make or break certain technologies, USB would go on to live up to its “universal” descriptor and become the most prevalent connectivity standard in the world.
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The bulbous computer adopted a then-struggling standard developed by Intel called USB (Universal Serial Bus). But Apple shocked the computing world when it swept its old connectors away with the original 1998 iMac.
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