6 Jun
2014
6 Jun
'14
8:58 a.m.
> I guess it really helps to have a user community
of devoted acolytes.
On Fri, 6 Jun 2014, Toby Thain wrote:
...Which they didn't exactly have in January,
1984. :)
You never met any of the Apple][ acolytes??!?
If they had, the Lisa may not have failed.
Price might have also been a factor.
The Mac brought that down to a point where it could be considered, albeit
unfavorably.
If you bought "COMPLETE SYSTEM", then PC and Mac were close to even.
However, if you bought the minimum and bought aftermarket expansion, the
same could be done MUCH cheaper on PC. (5150 from IBM cost me $1280,
total fully loaded was <$1800)
Being PC compatible would not have made any sense for
Apple from a
marketing perspective; their angle was "being the alternative". And the
competition appears to have been, ah, fruitful. Apple was able to do
things differently (e.g. picking 68000 over 808x; building an entirely
new, carefully considered UI Toolbox and integrated applications) and
users had a meaningful choice.
There are advantages and disadvantages to "starting fresh" V "upgrading
what's already available". (Such as not having to add kludges on top of
kludges, V software already available) Documentation revisions took much
longer than the PORT for Wordstar, SuperCalc, etc.
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