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Strategies & Market Trends : The Art of Investing
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (3130)1/3/2022 10:01:36 AM
From: research1234  Read Replies (1) of 10623
 
Apple was never going to make any serious inroads in the business world in the early days - too artsy, not enough pinstripes. Before the IBM PC made it safe for companies to go that route, the business world was an amalgamation of mainframes and minis that didn’t talk to each other, without serious software gurus to bridge the gap. Maybe a common standard would have evolved when the Web started to surface, but I think without the PC common standard it would have been a slow messy process.

I agree with everything else you said, though in hindsight it’s clear that Microsoft owned the PC market from day one. IBM simply had no idea they they had changed to world until it was too late for them to catch up.
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