Re: Apple's ways

[Greg Buchner <nobody@mn.rr.com>]

In article <20010831023531.10929.00000148@mb-mg.aol.com>,
 supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> Well, Motorola got to build Mac clones for about a year.
> It actually did come out with CHRP computers as did
> IBM (but IBM's never got to run MacOS).  Then Apple
> panicked and called it quits.  It didn't want to share.
> 
> You have to wonder.  Mac users still actually think that
> IBM was and continues to be hurt by clones.  In fact,
> IBM's Aptivas (their current PCs) sell like never before.
> It may be true that IBM has to share the market with
> clones but thanks to clones, the market has expanded
> many many times faster and that expansion has more
> than made up for sharing the market.

But you overlook that fact that this was killing Apple.  The Mac clone 
companies weren't going after new markets, they were going right after 
the Mac market.

How many ads from Power Computing, Motorola and the other clones did you 
see in computer magazines that weren't Mac related.  Not many if any at 
all.

IBM had a major advantage when it came to clones though...the letters I, 
B and M.  No one ever got fired for buying IBM was how it went...

If the Mac clone companies had siphoned off sales from the windows
market, it would have been different.  But Apple couldn't compete
as the big boy in the small marketshare that the Macs had and wasn't
being expanded.

Greg B.
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