The funny thing is, all Apple asked for is $1 per port, then later 
downgraded to all of $0.25 per system, no matter how many ports were 
added.  $0.25 for the whole laptop or camcorder... hard to imagine that 
this is an obstacle, isn't it?  Well, apparently it IS a problem.  I'm 
betting the time spent contacting Apple, drawing up contracts, and 
arguing what constitutes a "system" and all probably is more of a 
turn-off than the $0.25 fee.

Danny

Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Randy Glenn <randy@surrealitylabs.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm told by people who Use The Gear that Firewire also has a huge
>> place in audio editing - that a lot of multitrack recording gear and
>> such is really only available in Firewire. Content creation is a HUGE
>> market for Apple - indeed, probably their largest market for their Pro
>> machines. Firewire / IEEE-1394 is better suited to such applications
>> because of attributes like not loading down the host CPU to run the
>> bus, allowing DMA transfers, guaranteeing bandwidth, etc. The last
>> thing you want when doing pro audio or video work is latency.
>>     
>
> I see. So Firewire will be there for the higher end market for
> video and audio editing.
>
> I remember the old Creative Audigy card comes with
> Firewire interface.
>
>
> Xiaofan
>   

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