Jan 14
The folks over at the FireWire consortium are no doubt cracking open some bottles of champagne, ahead of the long weekend. The 1394 Trade Association announced this week that two billion of the not-quite-ubiquitous ports have been shipped internationally since Apple first introduced the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus to the world, back in 1986.
The association’s chairman sent out a pretty moderate statement regarding the many zeroed milestone, saying, “FireWire will continue its steady, stable growth.” As CNET points out, that rate of inception pales in comparison to that of USB, which current has 10 billion ports on products that have made it beyond the shelf (that number is closer to 1.2 billion for the FireWire folks).
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