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To: Eric Yang who wrote (22182)	1/11/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Actually, the lack of SCSI and inclusion of Firewire is more a matter of market strategy than saving $20-30, IMO. If Apple went to USB on iMac but kept serial/ADB, I am sure the USB vendors would have been much slower in providing new product. Similarly, I suspect that after successfully introducing USB with iMac by this strategy, Apple is gambling they can bootstrap adoption of Firewire by eliminating SCSI as standard. If they left SCSI on, one might reason, there would be less incentive for peripheral vendors to market Firewire sooner rather than later, hence slow adoption, and possibly never obtain critical mass. In my scenario, we should applaud Apple for taking the risk in the marketplace. Few PC box manufacturers would or could do the same thing. JMO.