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You’re comparing computers that sold at very different price points.
by GlenTheMachine 6y ago
You’re comparing computers that sold at very different price points.
- icedchai 6y agoYou are right. Sun's were much more expensive. But I would argue both were in the same class. NeXT also frequently compared themselves to Sun. I'm pretty sure Sun offered huge academic discounts. I never saw NeXT at any of the local universities... It was mostly Sun and DEC.
- wpietri 6y agoBut to the same markets. NeXTs were being sold both to the workstation and to the personal computer market. They were cheap but underpowered for a workstation, making them not very good for worksation-ish things, because you couldn't scale up. For a personal computer, they were very expensive, so they didn't do well there either.
- GlenTheMachine 6y agoI’m not arguing they had a good business plan - clearly they did not. All I’m arguing is that they were very good computers for the price, both in terms of software and hardware.