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Only some European countries Apple was very successful in the UK as well as CBM, Atari and the BBC micro and Spectrum.
by walshemj 8y ago
Only some European countries Apple was very successful in the UK as well as CBM, Atari and the BBC micro and Spectrum.
- vidarh 8y agoI really doubt that unless you stretch the definition of "very successful" quite far. Maybe they did ok by revenue given how extremely expensive it was. The Apple II sold poorly enough outside the US that most markets didn't even get localised keyboards. Most UK accounts of the era at most mention the Apple II in passing among wider coverage of the "second tier" machines like Amstrad CPC, Dragon, and even Oric. Apple II over its lifetime sold about as much as the ZX Spectrum did worldwide, but the vast majority of Apple II sales appears to have been in North America.
- walshemj 8y agonot for home use it was very successful in business as a way to run VisiCalc (mostly)
- vidarh 8y agoIn terms of proportion of the business market, possibly - I don't know. But certainly not enough to make Apple sales in the overall UK market significant vs. Commodore and Sinclair. There simply weren't enough Apple II machines manufactured for that to be the case.