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Re:Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost ov... by dtech on Sunday April 19, 2026 @09:21AM (#47824128)
I don't but this. The first 2 generations of iPod didn't even have USB connectors, only FireWire, which was a PITA as most PCs had a USB connection by that time but FireWire wasn't common as opposed to Mac.
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Re:Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost ov... by ben_w on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:27PM (#47826439)
Apple is consistently weird about peripherals, yes.

Hockey Puck mouse.

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Re:Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost ov... by swiftcoder on Monday April 20, 2026 @09:22AM (#47833950)
I don't think that runs contrary to my point in any way?

By the time the iPod came around, Apple had adopted FireWire to handle devices that USB's then-limited bandwidth couldn't really support. USB peripherals like mouse/keyboards were already pretty widespread by then.

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