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Re: How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war (Apple //c vs IBM PCjr)




On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, mdj wrote:

On Nov 28, 3:13 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
Read the article again. It's quite clear that the sales rates were
determined, not by the capabilities or quality of the computers, but almost
solely by whether it was running an interactive demo.

Agreed, but it shouldn't be discounted that the Apple IIc demo
included AppleWorks :-)

What I found incredulous in the article was the fact the owner simply handed over Apple's demo disk to its major competitor to disect and build a better demo to beat out Apple sales.