Why won't Apple do away with the Combo Drive?

[Plymouthbreezer]

FW400 is actually a lot faster than USB2.0. Even though USB2.0 has the higher transfer rate on paper, FW400 is able to sustain a higher rate while USB2.0's speed fluctuates. I'd give anything for the iPods to have FW again...

And for those like me - the unfortunate group of us who have iMac G4s with no PCMCIA slots or USB 2.0, FW400 was what we had left...

(Try moving 30GB of music through USB 1.1. Yuck.)