> 3rd party manufacturers are doing to Microsoft's brand what Mac clones did to Apple in the early 90s. I’m not sure whether that’s a fitting analogy. The Mac

> 3rd party manufacturers are doing to Microsoft's brand what Mac clones did to Apple in the early 90s. I’m not sure whether that’s a fitting analogy. The Mac clone program was launched for other companies to build cheap computers with low margins, so that Apple could continue serving the higher end markets while MacOS would gain marketshare. Instead, clone makers ended up building very high end machines that were faster than anything Apple offered. They hurt Apple’s brand because they were so much faster, not because they were cheap trash. Daystar Digital’s Genesis had 4 processors, PPC 604e @233Mhz. It had 12 RAM slots and 6 PCI slots. It was a monster and it creamed Apple’s PowerMac 9600, but it was also considerably more expensive.