It didn't come out first for two very sound reasons- Money and Market CL was running low on money and windows is a bigger market from which to get money which in turn will aloow CL to afford to make the Mac version. Those market research duds can't even agree on what size the share is according to them it's anywhere from 2.5 to 7.5 depending on who talk to but they totally ignore the graphics and music industries where Macs have a commanding lead and it's not getting any smaller either and in the web server biz windows (any version) is #3 behind assorted flavors of unix and apple based setups. I think some of them still use 'Pentium math' in their calculations. As for Apple being a computer Betamax? Give it a rest! Sony was their own worst enemy there, beta tape, at max record time came up half an hour shorter than vhs did so that caused lots of problems and complaints when someone's tape ran out with half an hour left in what they were taping. Sony, seeing the 'writing on the wall' admitted defeat and bowed out of the home market but they are still very much around since EVERY BIT of news video you see on the news was shot on beta tape, unless it was sent in by amature video, aka home viewer. As for Apple being dead in 3 years? That horse has been beating so long even the bones no longer exist so get off it! Penguinisto, on your comment on Commadore missing the boat, hell they weren't even at the dock when the boat left!

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