For more than three decades, the PC’s confrontation against Mac has lasted. And if almost everyone had to deal with a personal computer, a descendant of the IBM PC, then few worked with the Mac. What kind of rare bird is the Macintosh computer? And how can one not the most popular brand manage to hold its defense against numerous rivals for so long?
The origins of the business phenomenon
Let's look at the history of computer technology, the beginning of the eighties of the twentieth century. At that time, Apple was a small company founded by two enthusiasts - Jobs and Wozniak. They managed to bring to the market a couple of fairly popular computer models for home users.
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