Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Apple‘s Struggle to Survive the IBM PC" video.

  1. Technophobic Luddites is who keep Apple afloat. How many colors? Millions!
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  2. Steve Jobs succeeded in killing himself in 2011.
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  3. Never underestimate the stupidity of your fellow human.
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  4. You're luckier for the USA. Who do you think invented everything? Sure you people had some vague ideas but we actually made the physical hardware. Something you could slap and it worked. We made all of the software too. We invented the compiler and high level languages. Very little Information Technology was developed outside of the USA.
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  5. Moore's Law didn't apply to Apple. They ran Motorola chips. Which was a large part of the problem for Apple. There was no way Apple was going to compete with the whole PC ecosystem. One cannot stand against many.
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  6. Apple sued Microsoft for having a recycle bin. They'd have firebombed anyone that tried to clone their firmware. But what you describe is precisely what happened that started the IBM clone market.
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  7. No one wanted a midrange 486 by the mid 90s. Heck I had a Pentium 200. I gave a 486 DX4-100 away. Chip, motherboard, RAM, all of it. Apple's problem was they couldn't keep up with the free market. You can't stand alone against the tide.
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  8.  @madzen112  why would anyone want a low end 486 by the mid 90s? You couldn't even play Quake on a 486.
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  9.  @madzen112  1996
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  10.  @madzen112  it seemed that way to me. They were grasping for straws and circling the drain.
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  11. It was Steve Jobs. But Steve had to wander in the desert for a while before that was going to happen.
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  12.  @gtzpower  that's all a matter of subjective opinion. Except for the suicide nets around Foxconn. They're physical.
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