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ams6110 on Nov 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy ...

Apple tried allowing cloners to copy the hardware and being software for a while, it nearly killed them. I don't recall if the clones were ever price-competitve with x86 clones though.

nl on Nov 25, 2013 [–]

TO be fair, almost everything Apple did at that time "almost killed them".

The clones did expand the Mac market, but Apple was so incompetent at that point that it didn't know how to handle that.

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