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!
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!