Sujet Boule de crystal... l'avenir du Firewire ??

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et pour aller dans ton sens, Apple n'autorisait pas il y a peu le remplacement hors garantie des batteries dans les iphones-ipod-ipads

dans un centre de maintenance que je connais bien.

 

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From the 1394 Trade Association (http://www.1394ta.org/Technology/index.htm)The 1394 digital link standard was conceived in 1986 by technologists at Apple Computer, who chose the trademark 'FireWire', in reference to its speeds of operation. The first specification for this link was completed in 1987. It was adopted in 1995 as the IEEE 1394 standard. A number of IEEE 1394 products are now available including digital camcorders with the IEEE 1394 link, IEEE 1394 digital video editing equipment, digital VCRs, digital cameras, digital audio players, 1394 IC's and a wealth of other infrastructure products such as connectors, cables, test equipment, software toolkits, and emulation models.

The people who "concieved" of FireWire (Including Mike Teener, whose FAQ is linked above) were all employees of Apple Computer, Inc. in the '80s and '90s.

As the standard evolved, more companies were approached by Apple and became involved in the development of the technology. Eventually, FireWire was proposed as a standard, which was eventually accepted by IEEE.

Saying "Apple invented FireWire" is an oversimplification, but it is still more accurate than saying "Apple did not invent FireWire."

USB was "concieved" at Intel. As with FireWire, many other companies, including Microsoft, contributed to the final USB specifications, but Intel was the largest player. Same thing with PCI slots, for that matter.

Apple was not involved in the development of USB, and was actually fairly late in including it. However, the (original) iMac was significant in that it only had USB, with no "legacy" components. This essentially forced peripheral companies to sell USB devices (which had been very rare before the announcement of the iMac.