"Tell 'em the price son", and yet it survived

Apple General
#1

This recent small blog got me thinking how strong the Apple moniker was, is and most likely will be…

I grew up with Atari (130XE and a tape recorder) then really wanted the ST but ended up with an Amiga. Since ditching the PC few years ago I like everything Apple despite the price it commands.

I do envy how great Apple is and do wish sometimes that Atari and Commodore could have survived to this day but I guess they didn’t have Steve Jobs or people of such calibre as him in order to get them through the bad times?

#2

What Commodore had were idiots in the marketing department. I was a fan, through 4 Commodores ( the C64, C128, Amiga500 and Amiga1200). They could have and should have done a lot better.

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#3

I knew from first use that I was a “Macintosh user”. First hold of a mouse, first time hearing the startup chime, seeing the Finder, the clear crisp feel of OS 6…

And yet since that day way back in 1989/90, I have only purchased 4 Macintosh computers “from Apple”. The other 7 were all second hand, and I suspect the one after that, and the one after that will be too, due simply to the price. (As per other thread, already planning on a 2011 iMac… And as soon as it was unveiled I thought to myself - I’ll own one of those shiny black round trashcans one day… Maybe not in 3 years, maybe not in 5… But one day…)

Yes, amazing products, but so expensive.

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