Firewire got neglected (no keyboards, mice, flash drives, and very few printers); the move from FW to FW800 required a different connector (USB doesn’t); Apple dropped FW here and there on its products, and Apple was the biggest adopter of it I think (TI invented it though). FW 3200 will probably smoke USB 3.0 (because USB’s realtime performance has generally failed to reach its claimed specs), but without some kind of killer implementation / product for FW 3200, it’ll all fade away like a bad fart.
There’s really a Firewire 3200 on the way?
I figured after 800 they just gave up. Why throw all those resources at developing something for an ever-shrinking market (even Apple’s support USB)?
This just means another generation of Firewire and Firewire/USB combo external drives instead of having the full economies of scale of a universal connection.