Sorry devilcm3, your facts are wrong. Steve Jobs didn't have anything to do with the development of Firewire. The project that became Firewire was initiated at Apple during his long, bitter, absence and was finalized before he came back by an industry group largely using Apple's R&D. It was intended as a replacement for SCSI, which was Apple's choice of the time for high-speed data transfer (hard drives, scanners, etc.), with the additional intention of creating something also suitable for high-end audio and video applications. As such it was embraced by Sony and others for A/V devices almost universally, at least initially.
USB, on the other hand, was developed by a different group of companies (Intel, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) as a simplified replacement for the multitude of low-bandwidth connections that crowded the back of PCs - serial, parallel and PS/2 connectors, etc.
Development of Firewire started in 1986. USB in the early 90's.
Despite all this history and the competing sources of the technology, when it came time to start transitioning to the new interfaces, it was Steve Jobs who made the decision to become an early adopter of USB on Macs, BEFORE getting rid of SCSI and putting Firewire on Apple's computers, and before most of the rest of the industry.
Gotta give the man (and the company) credit where it is due.
It is true that Macs were slow to adopt USB 2.0, but since it was mostly seen as being redundant to Firewire it was understandable from a business standpoint, if also quite frustrating to users. Regardless, due to the nature of their original intended purposes and the engineering decisions that resulted, Firewire is generally better suited for Mass Storage devices and A/V applications than USB (including USB 2.0), which is better for general peripheral attachments.
