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appleinsider.com - 10/17/2008

Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire

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In one of his characteristically terse email replies, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has reportedly told one Mac user that changes in video camera technology have reduced the need for FireWire on his company's 13-inch MacBooks.

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