Re: First Impressions of "iMAC"

[Dan@home.com (Dan)]

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:24:01 -0800, tpe123@gaol.com (escobedo) wrote:

>In article <35ddbd67.85488445@news1.newscene.com>, Dan@home.com (Dan) wrote:
>
>> >                            FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF "iMAC"
>> >                            ===========================
>> 
>> It looks like a toy to me.
>
>I remember hearing this one in 1984.
>

And it was true then, also.  Geez, the original Mac was even *less*
expandable.  All you could add was a 2nd floppy disk!

Look where they are now.  A shrinking niche market.  Is that your idea
of success?

Why do you think they killed the clones?  Because rather than grow the
market, as they hoped (which is what happened in IBM PC land), clones
just cut into Apple's sales.  It's hard enough to survive in a
shrinking market.  It's even harder when your slice of that market is
also shrinking.  

For that matter, I don't think any of the Mac clone makers made any
money at it.  It's just too small a market to support more than one
box maker.  

Dan