Leon wrote:


"ted harris" wrote in message
...

Steve Jobs had no one fighting him tootj and nail. I'd like to see
someone
try to do what he has done today, in a developed computer world. Your
argumnent is quite simply not apples to apples...


Actually Apple would be like the Commodore had Microsoft not bought it.

Bought _what_? Microsoft owns neither Commodore nor Apple so what the Hell
are you talking about?

Gone. Apple did fine until it had competition.

Apple had competition on the day that they sold their first machine.
Intel-based S-100 micros were already well established in the market--Apple
with their 6502 was fighting the trend. Successfully. Wasn't until IBM
came in that Apple ran into a serious competitor, but they've managed to
maintain market share right along.

Steve Jobs fallacy was
his
insisting that Apple manufacture everything including the software. It
was simply out paced by the enormous number of other choices.

Apple still manufactures everything including much of the software. Seems
that that strategy actually worked pretty well.


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