Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

["Payton Byrd" <plbyrd@bellsouth.no.spam.net>]

<heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote in message 1175633194.875203.303590@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com">news:1175633194.875203.303590@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 3, 9:12 pm, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
>>
>> Those articles both have an amazing frog perspective.  While they say
>> "tech products" they really mean "computer tech products".  And while
>> they say "of all time", they really mean "during the last few decades".
> 
> While your further argumentation is of course correct you forget
> one thing: The site is named "PC World"...  ;-)
> 

Judging by the article, it should be titled "Apple World".  It's actually full of factual errors, not least of which was the childish jab at the Commodore 64/128 which either an uninformed opinion or an intentional rewriting of history.  Either way, it's consistent with Apple's behavior since 1981 when Jobs declared the Apple II as the best selling computer ever when the VIC-20 was outselling it 10 to 1.

No, I'm not trying to start a flame-war here, I'm just pointing out that the article is far from something that should be considered authoritative on the topic.

Payton Byrd
__Proud__ owner of a *wide* range of 8-bit computers