[avg_freeper]

"Apple's implementation of USB had nothing to do with the iPod, because USB was implemented on Macs before the iPod."

Correct, I had a bondi-blue first gen iMac and I believe it had two USB ports. The whole drive behind USB and the iMac was the reduction of cables. One cable from the mouse to the keyboard then to the iMac.

[UpAllNight]

--Correct, I had a bondi-blue first gen iMac and I believe it had two USB ports. The whole drive behind USB and the iMac was the reduction of cables. One cable from the mouse to the keyboard then to the iMac.--

The USB ibook (not imac) came out in 2001. IPOD came out in 2001. All existing macs prior to the USB ibook did NOT have USB. Apple put the USB into the ibook knowing that they were bringing out the IPOD with the USB. The whole drive behind the USB on the mac was because they designed the IPOD with the USB.