Re: The apple 2, the PC, and the clones

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>That said, I still believe that the ultimate success of the PC was in
>>the home market, not the business market.  There were really in
>>fact two revolutions.  The first was the PC in business in the 80s.
>>Then in the late 90's, there was a greater revolution and a much
>>more significant one.  The great untapped reservoir of potential home
>>users that Apple could have tapped was finally tapped by the PC.
>
>And by them IBM had completely lost control of the PC market.  When
>people buy a PC these days, they rarely buy it from IBM ......

Yes but Apple is both an OS maker and a hardware maker.  It
is both Micorosoft and IBM rolled into one.  Success of Mac
compatibles would have meant tremendous success for MacOS.

Besides, in the long run even the hardware side would have
benefitted.  IBM sells far more PCs today than they even did
in the days when it was exclusive.  In fact, the IBM designs
and commercials are very slick.  They have to be to compete
and that's good for the end user.