Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu>]

Jeff Lemke wrote:
> 
> Regnirps wrote:

> > I am befuddled by your time line. Late 70's is pretty much Apple all by itself.
> > To say Tandy had any but a tiny and late presence seems strange to me. By
> > others, perhaps you mean Osborn and Kaypro and Ohio Scientific and such? These
> > were popular in the electronics magazines because they were easier to hack
> > hardware with (as in less sophisticated) than Apples, but they were hardly
> > players in the market and they came and went rapidly. The most important
> > influence of the others was the rapid demand for standards like CP/M which led
> > to the premature standardization in the PC business and eventually DOS. Without
> > the drive of Carl Helmers and Byte Magazine and Interface Age, a more leisurely
> > and intelligent trend towards standards might have dominated, to all out
> > benefit.
> >
> > Charlie Springer
> 
> Now I don't have a market analysis in front of me for the computer
> industry for the time period we're talking about, but I do know that it
> was never even close to "Apple all by itself".  Perhaps Apple commanded
> 50% market share at its very peak in the first few years, but no more
> than that....


Delete the first sentence of my reply.  It wasn't really necessary.

> Jeff Lemke