Re: How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war (Apple //c vs IBM PCjr)

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Nov 28, 12:33 pm, Tony Cianfaglione <ab...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, mdj wrote:
> > On Nov 28, 3:13 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> >> Read the article again. It's quite clear that the sales rates were
> >> determined, not by the capabilities or quality of the computers, but almost
> >> solely by whether it was running an interactive demo.
>
> > Agreed, but it shouldn't be discounted that the Apple IIc demo
> > included AppleWorks :-)
>
>     What I found incredulous in the article was the fact the owner simply
> handed over Apple's demo disk to its major competitor to disect and build
> a better demo to beat out Apple sales.

Yeah, Apple should have copy protected that demo disk! ;-)

-Warr