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It should have been cheaper. The thing you’re overlooking is that the 1984 Mac was not actually a market success. Success required more memory and the LaserWrit
by KerrAvon 4y ago
It should have been cheaper. The thing you’re overlooking is that the 1984 Mac was not actually a market success. Success required more memory and the LaserWriter. The Apple II carried Apple until sometime in the late 80’s when people finally started buying Macs for desktop publishing.
- Maursault 4y ago> The thing you’re overlooking is that the 1984 Mac was not actually a market success. You are mistaken. "The Macintosh was the first successful mass-market all-in-one desktop personal computer with a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse."[1] 70K were shipped within the first 100 days of the announcement,[2] which is a sale every two minutes every hour of the day for more than three months, generating $174.6M in revenue and representing fully 1% of the existing home computer market in just over 3 months. That is actually market success by any measure. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#1984:_Debut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#1984:_Debut [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20090821105822/http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/applehis/appl1984.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090821105822/http://www.island...