"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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Bought _what_? Microsoft owns neither Commodore nor Apple so what the
Hell
are you talking about?

Ok, the giant bail out. Apple would probably be gone had Microoft not
dumped millions into Apple.

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.

No they lost market share. Their share is squat compared to what it was
before the PC came 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.

No, there is now hardware and software available for an Apple not produced
by Apple.