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From: paulb@ttidca.UUCP (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //C
Message-ID: <201@ttidca.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 12:39:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  5 12:39:50 1986
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In article <6129@decwrl.DEC.COM> craparotta@tipple.dec.com (Joe Crap) writes:
>From what I understand the //E still outsells [and outsold] the //C... 
>
>Joe

According to the latest Infoworld, the //e & //c each have 8% of the PC
market.  Therefore sales are about equal.  BTW, the Mac leads the PC market
w/12% market share.  However, the graph was on individual PC models.  For
example, if you add up both Apples, it would surpass the Mac.  Or if you
add up all three IBM PCs, it will also surpass it.

I remember when the //c first came out.  Apple expected the large majority
of sales to be //c instead of //e.  They drastically cut //e production &
made tons of //c's.  Right from the start the sales were 50/50.  We buyers
of iie's at the time had a hard time finding them to buy.  Apple had to
scramble to correct the situation.  I suspect the miscalculation came from
Steve Jobs who had this strange notion about people preferring closed
architectures.

It will be interesting to see how the Apple pie (pun intended) is divided
between //c, //e & //GS once the latter becomes readily availble.  Maybe I
should have thrown Mac onto the list as I suspect that it will cut into
both Mac & //e sales (but not //c) once //GS specific software is
available.
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