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To: Lee Nelson who wrote (14310)	6/4/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: BillHoo	of 213177

<<It just makes me a little nervous to think that it depends on technology that hasn't actually arrived yet.>> And this harks back to a posting about "Explorers get the dysentery and the arrows, while settlers that follow get the land and the gold." It's great to say that Apple is the pioneer in many of these technologies, but the price to being cutting edge is that the first tries in anything are not always successful. But in the case of USB and Firewire - there is already a great deal of support rallying for it in the PC development camp. This should not be a concern. The concern is "How dumb are PC users?" Remember, it's taken a decade for the large group of corporate PC users to use e-mail and Fax modems rather than FedEx and Fax machines. Global Village revolutionized this and made it easy on the Mac side. Almost all the Fax modem support I've done has been on Powerbooks. Most of my PC users won't even touch faxing from PC laptops because they have enough trouble getting remote access and e-mail from them. I nearly cried when I supported users at AT&T and Lucent who had top-of-the-line fax/modem cards for their NEC/Win95 laptops, because they refused to learn to use them and opted to BUY portable fax machines and install seperate FAX and MODEM lines! Anyway, my point is that Win PC users may be afraid of the new USB and firewire technology and prefer to stay with parallel and serial ports. "I've invested a ton of money on cards to support my external peripherals. I don't need this USB stuff!" -Bill_H

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