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harry wild said:

$7.5K from Apple is a semester depending if she/he lives away from parents! Ugh!  Pretty cheapskate of Apple!

hammeroftruth said:

Was still better than Windows 3.0 or 3.1. At my job during those days, we were using Windows 3.1 as a beta and it was running our entire mail order PC company.  It crashed a lot.  I thought it was ironic because we were also a Mac dealer but would never implement the Macs on anything except later on in the advertising department. System 7.6 was for the time one of the best operating systems on the planet. Fast, responsive, and not as buggy as previous versions and much better than anything on a PC. 

The main reason why it didn’t overtake Windows was that people were buying these “clone” IBM PCs, which were knockoffs, since IBM didn’t patent the right things and therefore competitors just copied the hardware and reverse engineered the bios which was the only thing IBM patented. They sold these things cheap for the time and Apple couldn’t compete on price. 

This is why Apple fights anybody who tries to make a “clone” Mac, and makes all of their hardware with specific clues on them to distinguish them from 3rd party copies. IBM lost billions over clone PCs and eventually got out of the hardware business. 

What people do not realize is that IBM (DOS-OM) handled to Microsoft (MS-DOS) a blank cheque for what Microsoft is today, by not securing the OS. IBM blindly, was more interested securing a hardware that, after all Compaq shamelessly, reversed copied. Yes, it was a period of self-given importance of having a real IBM or a “clone”.
And, if I still remember, it was said, that win95 was Mac84. My family laughed at me in 1984 for having a Mac which was considered a toy, since they “worked the keyboard”. “A real business comp”. Meanwhile, I struggled at my office with “Harvard” (?) graphics on DOS. Thanks,  Apple for changing things…!
Jayyzzzuuzzz what a period

How did compete before they took the easy way out, and being corrupted by the leaches controlling and selling the personal info of the consumers?

lam92103 said:

Excellent news! Any other industry and the execs would have already been in jail. Imagine a car company telling you that you have to buy all accessories from their store, and ones bought from anywhere else will just not work. And the makers have to get their products approved before they can be sold, by a somewhat arbitrary set of rules, and they have to pay 30% to the car manufacturer commission.