Re: Apple's ways

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> But how do you go after the Windows market?  By building better
> PCs.  Faster, sleeker, more powerful PCs.  The Mac clone makers
> did this and in fact, the overall number of MacOS users increased
> meaning that it was gaining market share from Windows.  The fact
> that these powerful Mac clones hurt Apple was simply because
> Apple refused to change from its usual business practices.  Instead
> of producing more powerful and feature rich Macs to justify the
> premium prices it was charging, Apple continued to be, well, Apple.
> It didn't put the effort into making better Macs.  If Apple made
> better Macs and the clones made better Macs, you would have
> a healthy cycle of improvements that would raise the MacOS
> platform to the level where it could have the same leverage as the
> Windows platform.
>
Exactly what I was saying earlier. Apple didn't want to expend
the effort it would take to compete against the clone makers.
They have the ability to make superior machines as they have
shown since the beginning of Apple but like any company without
any competitors , they aren't innovative or fast to market with
the latest gizmo. Hence that was the downfall of IBM in its own
PC market when it lost the crown to Compaq. It failed to recognize
the significance of the 386 processor and proceeded to make
incompatible 286 machines with microchannel that no one else wanted.
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