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Re:Why Amazon Is Special and Apple Is Not by epo on Sunday February 03, 2013 @04:05PM (#5161145)
I don't believe that for most people "Windows machines were substantially better". Then, as now, Windows was bundled in with so much crapware and with such poor out of the box defaults that the performance was, and remains, dreadful.

Then, as now, Windows primarily thrived because corporate buyers bought more of what they already had. The success of Windows between 1996-2005 was almost entirely due to monopolistic abuse and buyer inertia.

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Re:Why Amazon Is Special and Apple Is Not by rednukleus on Sunday February 03, 2013 @04:56PM (#5161349)
Complete nonsense. Macs in the late 90s were awful, and most Mac fans I know agree with this, at least in retrospect. Slow, expensive, hardly any software ran on the things.

Windows machines thrived for many reasons, including being faster, cheaper, having the best office programs, by far the best games, as well as all the advantages they had in enterprise.

I don't think any competent observer could say that late 90's Macs were good value machines.

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