J. Clarke wrote:
Leon wrote:


"Clif" wrote in message
thlink.net...

I know they work fine, they are GREAT and unparalleled when it comes to
graphics and that has never been a question, it just that I find it
incrediblyt difficult to believe that they do not have MORE Software like
the PC's.


Let me make it easier for you to understand why there is not more software
for the older Apples and basically why Apple bassicly failed.


If 8 billion dollars a year is "failure".


Apple was stingy in the beginning years and insisted that they would be
the
only ones to sell software or peripherals for the Apple computer. Since
IBM did not discourage other makers of computers and software writers to
make software for their style computers the PC naturally flourished.


Except that the CP/M community was even more open and IBM killed them dead.
Is _any_ company that started out making CP/M machines still in business?

IBM was successful mainly because of brand recognition, not because of the
superiority of their product or their policies toward developers.


Kinda like comparing a Socialist economic system to a Capitalist economic
system.


I think that's quite a stretch.

Uh....Radio Shack.....(remember the TRS-80?)

PHilski