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From: ilya@vectron.UUCP (ilya)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: mac compatibles ?
Message-ID: <91@vectron.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 01:09:41 EST
Article-I.D.: vectron.91
Posted: Sun Nov 18 01:09:41 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Nov-84 02:55:36 EST
Organization: Vectronic's Computing, Berkeley, Ca.
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Here is something for all the mac owners and prospective owners:

	Is any company out there coming out with a Mac compatible ?

	During the past few years, whenever a new computer was introduced,
many new companies sprang up and started making compatible computers.
This did not happen to the Mac.  It has been out for several months and
no company has made a compatible (not including the Lisa which can run many
of the Mac programs.)

	Are the companies *scared* to come up with another apple compatible
after all the law suits that Apple has gone thru, or are they just not as
sophisticated as Apple (do not have enough information about the internals)
and can not duplicate the Mac?

	I was thinking about buying a Mac, but I think that it is still
overpriced.  Since there are no compatibles out there, Apple can charge
a higher price because of the lack of competition; however, any new and
legal competition would bring the problem of no 100% compatibility to be
*legal* in the first place.

	Yet, if anyone does come up with a Mac compatible, it could mean an
instant fortune for the company (the demand for Macs is still great) and
lower prices (price war) for the original Mac.

	Anyway, whatever happens in the future, Apple Computer Inc. has
managed to monopolize the Mac market for several months already.  I wonder
if it was part of their plan to come up with a new approach to personal
computers design that is not only useful, but also hard to copy.

-- 
		       Ilya Goldberg @ Vectronic's Computing,Berkeley,California

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