"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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"Rick Hughes" wrote:
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No, that's absolute ********.



I disagree ...
As someone who used Macs during that time they were slow ... very slow, but
easy to learn and intuitive. when PC's came out with far more processing
power at a much reduced per unit cost ... Mac sales and business use
plummeted. (apart from some niche graphic useage)

The business went bust as far as MAC PC's concerned in mid 90's (not sure
if that was when Jobs left) ... the iPhone turned it round in past 5 years
for sure.
Interesting though Android has much higher market share than Iphone .. and
that is by giving away away an open platform (Android) ... pattern forming
here?

Microsoft simply provided what business (and eventually the public) wanted
.... cheap, powerful, easy to use m/c .... with cheap s/w and like it or
not Microsoft brought that.
At the time of AppleIIe you had Spekturm, BBC, Dragon, Acorn, Commodore 64,
Atari ..... they all died ...

It took business software to make things happen. ( MS Word, Excel)