Apple kills FireWire support in macOS 26, ending 25 years of legacy device compatibility. Original iPods, professional audio gear won't work.

There might have been an IEEE 1394 port (FireWire was Apple's trademark name) on our Dell family PC around 2004 but I doubt it. Mike Wuerthele, my co-author, had me write most of this piece.

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Apple began developing FireWire in the 1980s and first used it in 1999 model computers. Around that same time, Sony dropped FireWire into its new lineup of digital video camcorders, helping cement ...

Apple’s largest session of the 1394 Developers Conference took place at Microsoft’s facilities in Redmond, WA. The two-hour session was well attended by both Mac FireWire developers and ...

A faster version of FireWire, known as IEEE 1394.b or FireWire 800, offers roughly twice the speed of FireWire and USB 2.0. It is offered by Apple on its professional models and on some external ...

The company's own FireWire 800 port has fallen out of favor in recent years, for example, with Apple electing to push Intel's newer Thunderbolt standard in its place, but now there's a solution ...

Aiming to spur adoption of FireWire in consumer electronics, Apple Computer said Wednesday that it will give away software that helps device makers add the high-speed port to their products. Apple ...

Apple customers unhappy that the company dropped FireWire from its newest notebooks are venting their frustrations on the company’s support forum in several hundred messages. “Apple really ...

Apple made things worse in 1999 when it began charging a $1 per port licensing fee to FireWIre device users. This drove manufacturers away from the format and back to the fee-free USB standard.

FireWire is still Apple Computer's baby, but the proud parent is cutting the cord. With the latest crop of iPods, Apple is no longer including a FireWire cable in the box. The music players will ...

Apple's Thunderbolt display offers such docking capabilities as it contains a number of USB, FireWire, Ethernet, Display, and Audio ports all attached via one Thunderbolt connection, but a number ...