Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

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Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu> wrote:

>>Thus the Apple II could not evolve into an ARM based 32 bit platform, it had
to
>>be replaced by something completely new. Had someone been in charge who
>>understood basic sales and marketing Apple would have the 95% market share
>>today, no question. Penetrate and exand, penetrate and expand. Ask Bill Gates
>>or IBM (Still ten times bigger than Microsoft) or Dell or SUN.
>> 
>>It is only Apple that has this flawed approach to finding customers and
serving
>>them. What we need is Apple's technical inovation and Gates businessinovation
>>combined.
>> 
>>Charlie Springer
>
>I think we need to go back in computer history quite a ways to see why
>Apple would never have 95% market share, almost regardless of what it
>did later.
>
>And then Apple tried the Lisa, but it was way too expensive and a bit
>sluggish in performance.  And that was it for Apple in business, except
>for desktop publishing.  They did find a niche there with their Macs,
>but it really was a small niche.  It was just enough to save them, I
>think.
>
>Jeff Lemke

They tried everything EXCEPT to build on their existing market like
with the ARM based Apple II.  What do you think businesses were
using as computers before the IBM PC?  Granted, not many of
them were using computers at all, but the Apple IIe was also one
of the business units of the day (I have some old science journals
from the era and the Apple II was in there....right next to the ugly
looking Toyota imports and Datsuns).

Instead of vigorously upgrading to IIe to crush the IBM PC, Apple
(Steve Jobs) was convinced that first the III then Lisa and then
Macintosh....a "next big thing"...was the only way to "break into"
something they were already in!

Can you imagine what would have happened if two years ago,
Microsoft decided "to hell with backward compatibility, Microsoft
Windows 95 will have NO compatibility with DOS or Win 3.1"?