måndag 9 oktober 1995 kl. 08:00:00 UTC+1 skrev Dave Haynie:

In <453gae$[email protected]>, [email protected] (Scott Konowal) writes:

If the GIANT PC's have such a foothold in the industry, then why
are Mac's still so popular?

Apple has been losing market share for some time. From a peak of
somewhere around 12%, they're now at about 8.5-9% (based on various
industry sources). Apple's done as well as it has for one reason: good marketing. That's the same good marketing that gave you $1500 Apple
IIs that weren't significantly faster, better, or more capable than
$250.00 C64 systems.

It depends on what you want to do. For audio and sprites in games a C64 would trump the Apple II, but if you want to have a good disk system to develop software and do actual work, an Apple II with DOS 3.3 or ProDOS would clearly be the better option.

: Hey, why bring common horse sense here?

Marketing preys on emotions, it's relatively independent of good
sense. If good sense were the dominating factor in most personal
computer selections, the Amiga would have been very strong from its introduction.

Yet again it depends.

Amiga 1000 was a fantastic machine at the time. I found it's capablitiles really amazing in 1985-86! But I personlly could not afford it. It was way too expensive for me. I had to do with cheap clones of Apple II+ and IBM PC clones.

Another thing I would have missed is the support for large hard drives and other hardware. The same goes for software. While the Amiga had really good support for games, and some great niches like video editing, it lacked a large art of the professional
eco system that Apple and IBM had.

br,
martin


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