17 Nov
2000
17 Nov
'00
9:39 p.m.
Eric Smith skrev:
To think I'm having a computer fight over 8-bit micros... ^_^;;
> It was rather difficult to buy an Apple II as
well. After all, it was an
> Apple machine and had as a matter of consequence an Apple price tag.
When I was in junior high school, a close friend and
classmate managed
to buy one on his earnings from a part-time fast food job. Maybe they
weren't dirt cheap, but they were affordable.
Well, I had classmates with PCs, too.
It's easy for other companies to enter the market
with cheaper products
*after* someone has already established a market for (relatively)
inexpensive compact ready-to-use microcomputers (vs. S100 boxes and the
like).
Is it? Wouldn't Apple have a competitive edge over newcomers?
If Apple was able to maintain their prices after
competitors like Atari
and Commodore introduced cheaper machines with whizzier graphics, that
demonstrates that consumers valued expandability and a broad software
base more than whizzy graphics.
Depends on the consumers. The C64 was a far more successful machine, though it
was sold only on hardware and games.
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