FireWire and KVM: Cables that Defined History
The FireWire cable was not popular, but it should have been. It could do everything that USB 2.0 could, but better, though more expensively. For your average user, they met the FireWire cable in their iPod box. Some of those old iPods came with the FireWire port for syncing with a Mac or a PC. Apple made this connector, and one can hot-swap it, meaning you don’t need to turn off the computer before unplugging it. Camcorders were a decently popular gadget in the 90s and early 2000s when there were no camera phones. Plenty of other gadgets started using the FireWire connection, like camcorders, cameras, etc. Even now, there are plenty of homes that regularly look at or digitize the footage they had taken on their camcorders. The story of FireWire can be said to be similar to that of USB C. Apple wanted everyone to adopt FireWire with the gusto that it had, as it boasted of being able to do so much more than the USB cable. But FireWire was expensive and ...