Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <3F484B2B.6090702@noneofyourbusiness.com>,
 Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:

> Greg Buchner wrote:
> > In article <20030823180234.00586.00000492@mb-m02.aol.com>,
> >  supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> > 
> >>I would argue that Apple is the Microsoft of the Mac
> >>world.  Look what they did to their "partners" during
> >>the Mac clone fiasco.
> > 
> > Yea, but also take a look at what the Mac cloners were doing to Apple.  
> > The clone companies got Apple to agree on cloning based on the fact that 
> > they would work towards expanding the Mac market.  They didn't do that, 
> > they just went after the market Apple already had.  Splitting up an 
> > already small percentage amongst more companies just didn't work.
> 
> Well, that isn't totally true.
> The clones did expand the market... and stole market share from Apple 
> too... by making better/faster Macs than Apple did.

Well, from my experience, I don't know anyone who bought a Mac clone who 
wasn't already a Mac user.  I currently know several people who have 
switched to Macs based on the new Macs/OS X.

As for the making better/faster Macs, that's easy when you're only doing 
a couple of thousand of them at a time.  That's not something that Apple 
could do without being slammed for not having have machines for the 
demand.  That's something else I've seen firsthand.

The clones probably did expand the market, but it probably wasn't by all 
that much...not enough to make up for what Apple was losing.

Greg B.

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