Why Microsoft Should Fear Intel Macs" 563

Mitch

There was nothing wrong with that.

Their licenses didn't stipulate what type of machines they could build. If that were true, Apple could have cancled their licenses for breach of contract alone.

Apple may have thought that the cloners would be happy producing low-end, low margin Macs, and to leave the fat middle and high end to Apple, but they had no way of enforcing that. They must have been totally incompetent idiots to not realize that licensing others to build Macs would result in compebreastion between ALL companies that build Macs.

Yes they did. Apple only supplied the specs, they didn't build logic boards for the cloners.

They paid Apple for the OS. And they also sold the clones with BeOS instead of Mac OS.

Yes they were, but that work wasn't done by Apple alone, it was done by the AIM Alliance.

Apple was not a development center for the cloners, they designed their own machines, and in all cases they were better than what Apple was producing.

Apple's market wasn't doing anything but shrinking without the cloners, and it didn't stop shrinking after cloning was end.

Apple bears the responsibility for not growing their market, not the cloners. Cloner companies are out for their own profits just as much as Apple is, and there's nothing wrong with that. What it boils down to is Apple can't bear any compebreastion, the thing that grew the PC industry to its colossal size.