Please help me out: I can’t recall a single thing where Apple ever was cheaper than the competition.
Their selling point was “works better” and then became “everyone be different (in the same way though!)”.
What set their devices apart was the smoothness in which everything worked. First the devices and later their ecosystem. I despise vendor lock-in and never went for them because of that but I can see the appeal.
Price though? This meme is the first time I’ve heard of that argument, someone please help me out.
But funnily enough these ads didn’t air where I grew up and Apple was never even close to the price of a non-Apple PC
Oh and: Apple, you’ve sold PCs as well! Just because you picked up a cat and put stripes on it you couldn’t just proclaim “look, a tiger!”.
But then again … You could. And you did. And in still furious that people bought it.
tbh, didn’t PC have a more strict definition back then?* specifically, an IBM PC compatible? so, intel processor + DOS (and later OS/2 or windows), which isn’t what apple sold
*(genuinely asking, i was not around in the 90s 😅)
(tho i guess even by that definition, intel macs were PCs lol, but that was way later)
the two definitions (general Personal Computer, or IBM-compatible) always co-existed in different contexts.
aside - even though Apple ads really drove the Macs Vs PCs thing - before they went Intel, Apple computers used to have IBM PowerPC architecture processors.
You know that’s another good point, while I was around then and even had a computer back then I’m from a non English country and just learned “PC == personal computer”. It never occurred to me that Apple might have reacted to a US terms or definition up until this very moment it was always “they just wanna be different and fancy”.
Perhaps a USA person my age bracket can give insights!
The first apple device I recall was the Apple II.
Please help me out: I can’t recall a single thing where Apple ever was cheaper than the competition.
Their selling point was “works better” and then became “everyone be different (in the same way though!)”.
What set their devices apart was the smoothness in which everything worked. First the devices and later their ecosystem. I despise vendor lock-in and never went for them because of that but I can see the appeal.
Price though? This meme is the first time I’ve heard of that argument, someone please help me out.
“does more, costs less” was a slogan they used in their ads in the 90s: for example
Oh interesting!
But funnily enough these ads didn’t air where I grew up and Apple was never even close to the price of a non-Apple PC
Oh and: Apple, you’ve sold PCs as well! Just because you picked up a cat and put stripes on it you couldn’t just proclaim “look, a tiger!”. But then again … You could. And you did. And in still furious that people bought it.
tbh, didn’t PC have a more strict definition back then?* specifically, an IBM PC compatible? so, intel processor + DOS (and later OS/2 or windows), which isn’t what apple sold
*(genuinely asking, i was not around in the 90s 😅)
(tho i guess even by that definition, intel macs were PCs lol, but that was way later)
the two definitions (general Personal Computer, or IBM-compatible) always co-existed in different contexts.
aside - even though Apple ads really drove the Macs Vs PCs thing - before they went Intel, Apple computers used to have IBM PowerPC architecture processors.
ah i see, thank you!
You know that’s another good point, while I was around then and even had a computer back then I’m from a non English country and just learned “PC == personal computer”. It never occurred to me that Apple might have reacted to a US terms or definition up until this very moment it was always “they just wanna be different and fancy”.
Perhaps a USA person my age bracket can give insights!