Re: Apple II Clones. How many sold?

[larwe <zwsdotcom@gmail.com>]

On Dec 27, 3:29 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> If smartphones ever converge on one (or at most two) architectures, then
> they may supplant the Wintel platform as the most numerous, hosting the
> greatest number of apps.

If we're using this sort of metric then Symbian has already won - at
the end of 2008, 40 million Symbian OS phones had been shipped into
Japan _ALONE_. But that's not the metric being discussed - we are
talking about total number of computers of a specific make and model,
not speculating about the number of members of a "platform" shipped.
Many of the PC-compatible machines shipped since 1981, which you lump
into the same category for more convenience in hyperbole, weren't even
compatible with _each other_ let alone an arbitrary third-party
standard. By and large, every C64 shipped will run every piece of C64
software shipped [for the same target TV system anyway].