Firewire support

i find it very hard to believe that ipods no longer support firewire connections. i called them and asked why this is and they gave me some bull s*&t answer. they said that usb is more popular than fire wire. when i said that is a load of bull since all macs since about 2000 come with 2 fire wire ports and the new dells come with it she didnt know what to say and just said they arent as popular.
any one know why they are doing this? is there any way to use a fire wire cable with the new 60 gig?

I don't speak for Apple but IMO, this was primarily due to the so many PCs not having a Firewire connection.
Does your iMac not have a USB 2.0?
I and many others agree about the loss of Firewire support but the following was copied from another thread here on this subject.
480Mb copied from iPod:
USB 1.1 - 11 min 15 seconds (G4/1GHz)
USB 2.0 - 2 min 44 seconds (G5, 2.0 dual)
(for comparison, the same folder copied in 2 min 18 seconds via FW from my 3g iPod)
In this experiment, USB 2.0 was only 26 seconds slower than Firewire to transfer 480 MB so the transfer rate using USB 2.0 is not extremely slower than using Firewire.
I don't believe there is a way to use a Firewire cable to transfer data with a new iPod.

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