Re: OS For IIGS

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <679901$7dv$1@opal.southwind.net>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>I'll dig up the Macworld article which substantiates this claim if need be.
>Cloners were eroding Apple's sales, which are mostly people replacing older
>Macs. They did nothing to get people to convert from Wintel to Mac OS.

   And the far less biased mainstream press that doesn't toe the party
line from Jobs says the opposite. Drop by
http://www.news.com/Perspectives/js/js9_12_97a.html In it, it notes
the hard facts that in the pre-clone year of 1995, Apple sold 4.5
million machines, and in 1997, it sold 3 mil. From 95-97, the cloners
managed to sell less than 500,000 (half a million) machines. Those
cloners did NOT take away from Apple if you look at hard numbers, not
Jobs's lame excuses for why Apple's now slipped to #8 with a 3.3%
market share.

Nathan Mates
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