[coldtea]

Learn what? They've gone from near bankruptcy in 1997 to the the most valuable company on the planet in 2017, so it's not like firewire hurt them (or anybody cared much about it except some video and audio pros).

[rvense]

I know a lot of regular people who got external Firewire drives with their Macs in the late 00's. My dad has a good pile with old photos on them.

[photojosh]

It was significantly faster than USB2 in practice. I sold my external FW drives not that long ago, was using them with a FW-Thunderbolt adapter for quite a few years ago.

[coldtea]

I got a couple as well. But the huge majority of the population didn't. Most PCs didn't even come with such ports...

[kccqzy]

I bought FireWire drives in the early '10s too. Although USB3 was available, FireWire drives still tend to be cheaper.