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I agree that Firewire is still being used by most video professional but last I looked Apple demographic for it's products is for the average consumer who don't do heavy video editing. Firewire just never found a market, for the most part USB 1.1 was fast enough for every peripheral except hard drives and video cameras (transferring video to hard drive stuff), and I'm not sure but if I recall by the time external hard drives became popular USB 2.0 was out, why use firewire when you can use USB.
No one is dissing Apple Top Down approach to it's ecosystem. Most if not all companies envy them! All i'm saying is Apple makes choices on what makes them or potentially can make them the most money. And many times these choices aren't in line with that their consumers really want. But due to their awesome marketing most consumers are happy to let Apple dictate what they think you may need or not need.
I still think Firewire was a failed attempted by Apple to monopolize the data interface game, which USB won and now I feel like that same is going to happen to Thunderbolt.
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