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To: Doren who wrote (162878)	12/13/2013 1:18:41 PM
From: slacker711	2 Recommendations Recommended By HerbVic tinaqm Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Since that time MSFT has pretty much owned from 97 down to 90% of the PC business. Poor Apple has picked up what... about 7% since then? This is proof we should all HEED the wise council of those who understand that the metric of success is not money or profits... its market share. If you want to argue against the importance of share, Softie is a terrible example. They have effed up almost every major decision/initiative they have made since 1999. That includes historically bad products in Windows ME and Vista, and yet they have consistently grown earnings because it is very hard to dislodge the Gorilla (to go back to late '90's terminology). Apple could screw up years of producing MP3 players and still be dominant. They cannot do the same in the handset business. They do have a very loyal core but Android is competitive enough that an iPhone that was as bad as Vista would be disastrous for earnings. A 10 year period like Softies and Apple would be an afterthought. Slacker

To: Doren who wrote (162878)	12/13/2013 1:28:49 PM
From: lucky_limey	Respond to of 213176

Are you talking main frame or desktop? There was no internet. IBM did not have a PC until well after the PC revolution started...(dominated by the Commodore PET, Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, Tandy Corporation's TRS-80s, Osbourne, Sinclair and later Compaq, HP, etc. etc and various CP/M machines). IBM's OS (OS2) never caught on - and the Taligent/Pink partnership with Apple never materialized in the wild. How do you think that they had 100% market share? When? With what? IBM did build a PC with an open architecture from off the shelf components that everyone standardized on.