Let me remind the Apple bashers that Apples are still being sold by Apple,unlike Amiga.
Apple users didn't have to wait 15 years between production of hardware:A4000 to SAMep.
Apple has, and continues to make a profit!
Yes,Apple hardware and software has always been very high priced.
I bought most of my orchard used and cheap;except paid $400 for a year old Bondi iMac and a couple years later $1000 for a week-old iMac DVD model.Both still work except for a lightning strike damaged internal modem in the Bondi.When I bought those iMacs there was no new Amiga !
Conversely all the really cheap computers sold by Commodore,Atari,Texas Instruments,Timex/Sinclair,etc meant those companies either lost money or made no profit, so those computers and their software faded from the mainstream like disco!
Jack Tramiel mania for cost-cutting may not have been the best thing for home computing.Example:his decision to save a few dollars and saddle the C64 with a serial bus much slower than it need have been frustrated C64 users and helped classify it as not a serious machine.Tramiel basically ran several companies into bankruptcy and helped clear the field for IBM.
