I gave steak when they wanted hamburger, but they still let me go when they found out they can live on hamburger for less than steak. Who cared if the programs created were buggy and caused a lot of support issues, as long as they got done fast and cheaper.

Funny thing about quality at Apple, they use the same chipsets for video, audio, etc that the PC makers like Dell use. Yet somehow the Apple versions are supposed to have a higher quality? I mean ATI or NVIDA chipsets for video, yet the Apple machine is supposed to be better at video? About quality, they said that about the G4 Cubes, yet they cracked up anyway? Maybe they are just built better in most cases instead of being slapped together on assembly lines in other countries. Didn't the same Korean company that made a lot of the PC clones, also make the iMac for Apple? Perhaps it is just a better quality design for Apple systems than the PC companies use?

Quailty should go into a system before it is built. It usually comes from the design phase and ends with the shipping of the system.

they might help increase the marketshare. Too bad that Apple doesn't allow dealers to carry Macs below the retail price or below what the Apple Web Store can sell them for. If Apple was smart, they would put a SWIAS in Wal*Marts instead of CompUSA.

Otherwise we might see the Macintosh suffer the same fate as the Amiga, niche market slowly churning down marketshare, and expensive machines to try and boost the profits of the company selling them.