In news:Xns99EEBBE9BB7B8isheforreal@216.196.97.142,
CozmicDebris <isheforreal> typed:
> DTC <me@nothingtoseehere.zzx> wrote in news:ADL0j.492$Vq.290
> @nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
>> Oxford wrote:
>>> Apple always disrupts static, non-functioning markets, then takes all.
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>> Always???
>>
>> Lets see....
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>> 1) Apple III computer, circa 1980 - overheating problems.
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>> 2) Lisa - Thousands buried in a landfill for a tax credit.
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>> 3) SJ's Next computer - never found a market, until Apple bought it.
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>> 4) Power Mac Cube - Shelved within a year after it was introduced.
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>> 5) Apple Cyberdog - It was a dog.
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>> 6) Taligent - Dead after a few years
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>> 7) EWorld - Dead after two years.
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>> 8) Pippin - Couldn't compete with Sony Playstation, Sega Saturn and
>> Nintendo 64. Less than 45,000 sold.
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>> 9) 20th Anniversary Macintosh - Discontinued after one year, could the
>> $7,499 price been a factor?
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>> 10) Macintosh Portable - The $6,500 price killed it off.
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>> 11) Newton - The "future of computing". Six year life.
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>> 12) Puck Mouse - No one could figure out which end was up.
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> You forgot Apple TV.



Where is Oxford when we need him to explain how all these devices dominated
the market and killed off the competition?