Re: What killed the Apple III

[mjensen2@wpo.uwsuper.edu (MATTHEW L. JENSEN)]

In article <3bffmp$kmg@solaris-2.Armstrong.EDU> bobm@solaris-2.Armstrong.EDU (Bob Matthews) writes:
>From: bobm@solaris-2.Armstrong.EDU (Bob Matthews)
>Subject: What killed the Apple III
>Date: 29 Nov 1994 10:00:41 -0500
>	My "ACM: The History of Electronic Computing" lists as a big 
>event for 1981 the following:
>
>	"A year after its announcement, the doomed Apple III ships,
>suffers nearly 100% failure rate."
>
>	I assume they don't mean that nearly 100% failed to work!  What
>(or who) killed the Apple III?  Was it the introduction of the 
>PC?  A wretched design?

I think it was a combination of the future developments of the Apple IIe and 
Lisa that killed the III. The Apple III had very few advantages over the 
IIE, and apple's muscles got behind the lisa/mac projects at around that 
time. (The III was discontinued in 1984, right?)

Don't rely on my information, though.  It's all vague recollection from 
magazine articles I've read over time.   Plus, I was only 8 in 1984 so I 
didn't pay much attention to the demise of the Apple III...

Matt