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I purchased a Lisa and accessories with a developer discount for over $8k in 1983, equivalent to over $25k now. It was an amazing machine. If Apple had (1) pr
by sema4hacker 1y ago
I purchased a Lisa and accessories with a developer discount for over $8k in 1983, equivalent to over $25k now. It was an amazing machine. If Apple had (1) priced it as a loss leader, at least initially, and (2) made all the software open source, then Lisa would have spread like wildfire and dominate, instead of being the failure it became.
- Rochus 1y agoThe technology was definitely a milestone - the first commercially available personal computer, which incorporated GUI concepts invented at Xerox PARC. The fact that they ended up competing with themselves is just one of the many mistakes that leave you wondering.