Steve Jobs mad at complainers of no FireWire in Macbook

[mrthuse]

I too sent feedback. My issue is backup.

The 2 macs I own are backed up onto a partitioned LaCie external drive that uses (duh) firewire. Both comcast and the at-work server limit storage space, and I'm loath to pay a monthly fee to safely back up only some of the data. I bought the LaCie to back up all of it.

The at-work IT Apple guy's miffed as well; he told me to wait it out and see what happens. He's of the mind the next versions of the new MB will address issues such as this.

Guess I won't pull the trigger yet on the two new machines I've been saving my $$$ to purchase.

Aargh...

[OWC Jamie]

Al Gore instituted the Barack Tax.
Story to break Nov 12.

:-)

[MikeF]

The real target for the new MacBook is switchers. He's going after the other 90% rather than the 10% he already has by the short hairs...

[modelamac]

How do you get Steve is mad from that email statement?

[Paul F.]

He's going after the other 90% rather than the 10% he already has by the short hairs...

And deleting features from the MacBook is going to entice new users... how, exactly?

[will2000]

modelamac wrote:
How do you get Steve is mad from that email statement?

ESP, and he forgot a smiley at the end.

[richorlin]

Paul F. wrote:

And deleting features from the MacBook is going to entice new users... how, exactly?

Because new users never used firewire on a Mac before so they're not missing anything.

Besides, most external drives also have USB also. I was able to use Superduper! to clone my new MAcbook to an external portable drive.

Everyone should just get over it. If you don't like the fact that the new Macbooks are missing firewire, then don't buy one, or buy the previous model at a big discount. The majority of Mac users who absolutely need firewire for their pro video and audio equipment are probably already using a Macbook Pro.

[AllGold]

richorlin wrote: Everyone should just get over it.

Yes, definitely tell everyone what they should do.

[incognegro]

richorlin wrote:

Because new users never used firewire on a Mac before so they're not missing anything.

Everyone should just get over it. If you don't like the fact that the new Macbooks are missing firewire, then don't buy one, or buy the previous model at a big discount. The majority of Mac users who absolutely need firewire for their pro video and audio equipment are probably already using a Macbook Pro.

#1: big, big assumption there.

#2: no, we should not. it's not like the floppy drive taken from the 1st iMac. you also make assumptions about Mac users who do Pro video.

i'm not picking a fight, but why stand up for Apple, when this is clearly a problem for many people, dedicated customers and new customers alike?

[deckeda]

richorlin wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]

And deleting features from the MacBook is going to entice new users... how, exactly?

Because new users never used firewire on a Mac before so they're not missing anything.

Besides, most external drives also have USB also. I was able to use Superduper! to clone my new MAcbook to an external portable drive.

Everyone should just get over it. If you don't like the fact that the new Macbooks are missing firewire, then don't buy one, or buy the previous model at a big discount. The majority of Mac users who absolutely need firewire for their pro video and audio equipment are probably already using a Macbook Pro.
Even professionals do not "need" FireWire. The question then becomes, why would anyone use FireWire? Answer: it's demonstrably better. But if you don't know it's better you won't, as the old saying goes, "ask for it by name." This is why the teeming masses buy USB devices and Windows computers, because "it's OK and does the same thing." And the rest of us shake our heads and wonder, "why don't they understand?" Paul F. is exactly right.

Keeping users in the dark and saying all is well cuts off FUTURE buyers who, by their non-exposure, will have less of a reason to expect better from Apple.

There is nothing to "get over" here unless you don't give a crap about taking an interest in making the Mac platform as viable and as practically attractive as it can be.

It's not as if we're whining about some super-tweaky, pie-in-the-sky, ultra high-end protocol that costs a lot of money to implement. FireWire is proven, extremely versatile in ways USB by design never can be and might add at most $50 at the retail level to a new Mac.