[GeekyBear]

Your claim was that Firewire "was very expensive compared to USB and Ethernet".

Which completely ignores the speed and the costs of the various data transfer standards as they existed at the time.

The cheap 1.2 megabit USB standard that existed at the time couldn't transfer 5 Gigs of MP3 files in less than an hour.

The cheaper 10 megabit version of Ethernet they sold at the time also would need more than a hour to transfer enough MP3 files to fill an iPod and wouldn't have been cheaper than a Firewire port.

Ethernet with faster speeds than 400 megabit Firewire existed, but was MUCH more expensive.

Speed AND cost both matter.

> I said 100 Ethernet which was dirt cheap

Back then? It wasn't.