Thread: "Apple is the next Microsoft"
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Old 03-06-2014, 04:23 PM   #157
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Originally Posted by theinfamousj View Post
Sorry to jump in again, but I had a camcorder that could DV out to Firewire so I did a ton of research at the time... Apple owned the intellectual property to Firewire and refused to share with anyone so my camcorder could connect to Macs and Firewire cards made with Apple's blessing and not to Firewire shaped ports that were built into PCs who had hopes of being able to obtain drivers for them but weren't allowed to.

I am surprised that Firewire is being called a "standard" since it is proprietary. All this time I had equated "standard" with "open". Live and learn.
And equally I used a DV camcorder that plugged and worked in either PC or Mac... often depends on individual manufacturers' precise approach to matching "standards" so one brand works and another doesn't...
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