On Nov 27, 7:48 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
Kevin Dady <ke...@hackaday.com> wrote:
On Nov 27, 2:21 pm, Greg Buchner <n...@none.invalid> wrote:
This was a good read about Christmas 1984 sales:
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/25/charles_eicher_christmas_1984/>
Greg B.
--
Actual e-mail address is gregbuchner and I'm located at gmail.com
yea I read that as apple defeated a computer that was already a total
stinker and had nothing but bad press at the time while trying to come
back for a second round, its not quite as glorious when said that way
=)
But one should recall that most of the purchasers were not into computers
or the trade press, so they saw the two machines as toe-to-toe competitors
for their gift-giving dollars.
I think the story makes a valid point quite dramatically.
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II:http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
apples / oranges, these uninformed consumers were not the mindless
sheep that it seems they were, that is how we were an apple family,
about this time is when my dad wanted a computer for his business and
wanted something for me to do educational type stuff on, he must have
spent months reading crap before even setting foot in the stores. Due
to how much praise he had read in the local ham community a TRS was in
the future, an IBM PC for the serious biz applications but at the end
of the day it was an Apple IIe due to its mix of serious apps, and
educational titles from years of software and decent support ...+ a
little talking up from a buddy or two.
But even before looking he was scoffing the PC Jr. as it "did not run
PC software" (semi half truth but mostly correct), he was not "in to
computers" nor reading trade press, just a guy making a shopping
decision, and never saw the PC Jr. as something toe-to-toe to really
anything.
2 cents, take it for what its worth