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The USB standards are just... Comically overcomplicated. And almost everything about it is optional. They need a full revamp, making it simpler and mandatory on all future ports, devices and cables.
But they won't do that, will they.
I miss FireWire, too.
I remember having a FireWire in one of the family desktops when I was a kid. Can't remember what we might have used it for, though.
It resides in the same vague memory hole as the Zip drive that we had.
I had a FireWire hard drive! I remember I bought specifically the enclosure that supported both standards since my motherboard had a FireWire port and on paper it was faster than usb! Too bad the HDD was as slow as molasses