It has somehting to do with licensing. Apple makes people pay them a dollar ($1) to license USB. Apple's intent was to make it _really_ cheap, which they did, but I think many people took it as an insult. They wonder why Apple would charge a dollar when they could just give it away for free, since that $1/license adds .000000000000000000000000000000001% to there revenue... Gabe > Just a random thought: Why has USB (12 Mbps) been so successful while > FireWire (400+ Mbps) has been very slowly adopted? Heck, I never even > heard of USB until I saw it on a motherboard, while FireWire had been > discussed in the trade press for years beforehand. Was there something to > do with licensing? Standards? Just the fact that Apple was a principal > character in FireWire? > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Get out of my trash! I'm telling you for the last time! A man works hard for his filth, just to have vagrants steal it. It's a cryin' shame." - George Liquor in "The Boy Who Cried Rat!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------