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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (22617)5/30/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Holly, I agree with everything you said about Bill Gates and Microsoft.

However, you are giving Bill Gates too much credit for the success of Microsoft. Apple Computer deserves much of the credit for Microsoft's success.

I bought my first computer in March of 1992. It was a Dell 386DX 33MHz
It was NOT my first choice. I really wanted a Macintosh but the price for the Mac was MUCH HIGHER than the Dell computer. At this time Apple treated the IBM PC and Microsoft as a "flash in the pan" and assumed they would disappear very soon. So in the mean time Apple kept their prices at nose bleed altitudes and continued raking in 60% gross margins.

In the mean time thousands of other buyers also thought the Macintosh was too expensive and began buying Gateways, Dells, IBMs, etc.
By the time Apple realized what was happening and began to lower prices it was too late. Bill Gates and Intel had taken over the PC market. Bill Gates beat Apple fair and square. The rest is history.

Jim
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