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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Received on Fri Nov 17 2000 - 21:39:11 GMT