Mac clones were a thing at that time. They were thought of as a way to battle against wintel. You started to see low cost and very high end macs made by other m

Mac clones were a thing at that time. They were thought of as a way to battle against wintel. You started to see low cost and very high end macs made by other manufacturers. It didn’t last more than a couple of years, and the deal ended pretty badly for those manufacturers. They were kind of let in the mud.