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Re: Wozniak vs Jobs



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

> I think we need to go back in computer history quite a ways to see why
> Apple would never have 95% market share, 

Apple did "break" into the business market with the Apple II. Businesses
bought it so they could run Visicalc.


> 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.

You also forget the education market. Education, publishing and home
sales kept Apple in the top 5 sellers in the world for many years.