Quote Originally Posted by zanzabar View Post
that was my point, apple had hatted usb and had it for comparability (not by default ether) and wanted everything on firewire, then they went for usb and firewire was still better then they killed firewire as the prefered connector when they joined with intel. apple had nothing to do with the adoption or creation of usb


and optical cables for a peripheral is a pain, ive broken so many optical cables for the stereo (or have had them broken, im not sure how many i killed)
Not true, the first imac was the first computer to standardize usb for mice, keyboard, mass storage, etc.. They may have preferred firewire for the mass storage but they did in large part seed the market with usb ports.