Re: Apple and the Holy War

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Robert Boucher <rboucher@houston.rr.com> wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
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>> But when the IBM PC came out, it was also a practical
>> computer although, in my opinion, not nearly as well
>> designed as the Apple II.  Jobs, in a fit of delusional rage,
>> started to label IBM as an evil entity.  He and the Apple
>> he remade in his image lost sight of everything and went
>> on a holy war to destroy "Big Brother."  I think that is the
>> main reason why he hated the Apple II so much because
>> in his eyes, the Apple II was the same type of machine
>> as the PC.  What he did not realize was that a practical
>> machine better designed can triumpth against another
>> practical machine less well designed.
>
> I don't think Apple ever had a real shot at the business market. When
>our company (12,000 employees) decided to buy a few personal computers*
>very few people even knew what a personal computer was, and even fewer
>knew about Apple computers.

Perhaps, but the home market knew of the Apple II.  And as
has been shown time and time again, the product that wins
the home market, if nurtured, will win over all other markets
eventually.

The business markets are always into the big name stuff.
You will almost never see an AMD based PC in a big
company but AMD has in fact produced a superior CPU
in the 1Ghz Athlon and AMD is winning the home market
slowly but surely.  And this, in turn, has resulted in the
entry of a lot of AMD units into businesses and schools.