So, well, I was an Atari ST user back in the day. So. And yes the Mac dropped in price for a period in the late 80s, 90s, in the 030 era as you say. But this h

So, well, I was an Atari ST user back in the day. So. And yes the Mac dropped in price for a period in the late 80s, 90s, in the 030 era as you say. But this had a lot to do with dropping component prices and Apple's mass market strategy at that point. At that point in time my mother got a IIlc on educational discount and it was a far better deal than a PC of the same era, at least for what she was doing. And in that era they made it a relatively open platform at that point, too, with an expansion bus, and ADB and all that. But that was well beyond when Jobs was there. His original vision was a locked down appliance box. Though he changed his tune when he went over to NeXT. The original Mac was too expensive for regular middle class people, and it had no expansion ports. I don't think you can deny those two facts.