On Wednesday 28 December 2005 16:19, Dinesh Shah wrote:
Even though Apple was great technology, IBM PC and Microsoft took the market. Why? Because, despite many problems, people show value in buying PC over MAC.
Apologize to poke my nose into this discussion but AFAICR, Amiga was a great technology. They were making color screens, video editing while Apple was struggling with monochrome video...
Amiga failed because of bad decisions, bad campaigning, bad advertisments. People are stupid. They think expensive means better while it wasn't so in Amigas case. Besides, Amiga was well ahead of its time. They were producing cheap, multimedia PCs which could multitask in an age where computers were big giants with black and while video outputs and monotasking machines...