• 0x4E4FOP
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    7 days ago

    Thinderbolt is gonna flop, same as Firewire, mark my words.

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      5 days ago

      Did firewire really flop? Lots of devices from the early 2000s have it and it works really well. Everyone used it to get video from cameras and using it for target disk mode on macs is amazing

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        5 days ago

        My point was, it flopped as a standard. It’s not that it’s good or bad, it’s just not used any more, there are no new devices with FireWire. USB killed it essentially. The same will happen with Thunderbolt, USB 3.x will kill it.

        I seriously doubt there will be something that will replace USB. It’s backwards compatible to oblivion and just supports newer and newer things. It’s very hard to beat that.

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          5 days ago

          USB 3.x killing thunderbolt wouldn’t make any sense, USB 4 is based on the Thunderbolt 3 spec. I would agree that USB 4 will replace Thunderbolt but only because it is Thunderbolt

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            4 days ago

            Oh, yeah, you’re right. I thought USB 3.x had Thunderbolt specs, not 4.