Individual people could afford these machines. In the 70s and early 80s computers started to appear which were cheap enough that enthusiasts and the public could afford to buy and tinker with them. Apple's marketing is what keeps Mac's different from the rest.Ī lot of people here are getting the details wrong, so I'll try to explain the whole story using my best grandpa voice. Apple kept building it's own computers which were incompatible with everybody else's up till 2005 when they finally made the switch to, basically, IBM's design.Īpple still builds computers which have a nice design and a predetermined set of hardware, but they are really the same as the rest now. Most of the competitors have died off and only really Apple remained. This generic design became so wildly popular that by 1990 IBM and it's clones dominated the computer market. The software to handle that was also made by other companies (this is what made Microsoft big). IBM decided to make it's computer generic and give the design specs to the public, as in other companies could make parts that could interact with it's overall design. Every one of them build their own machine with software designed just for that machine.
You had Amiga, Commodore, IBM, MacIntosh and a few others. Initially different companies had incompatible machines.
0 kommentar(er)
