The Frankling Ace was like an Apple ][+ clone, they even copied the ROM bit by bit and then changed the names in it to use Franklin Ace instead of Apple ][+, etc. Then there was the Russian Apple pirated system, and a few others. Then the IBM PC and its clones came along and almost wiped out Apple, until the Mac started to sell more systems. By this time, in 1985, Steve Jobs was let go, and Sculley had Apple make color macs in 1987 and Macs with expansion slots (Nubus, gag, choke, bleah!) which was an improvement over the "Mr. Coffee" shaped Macs that only used SCSI and other ports for expansion.

which explains all the "gay" colors used on the iMac model translucent cases. Did you think that the daisy pattern and blue polkadots were for non-gay people to buy? It just matches their drapes. Apple would never try to alienate the creative content people, some of whom are gay.

More like the PCJihadists who write [link|http://www.ihateapple.com|"Apple Sucks" websites] or those guys who keep on saying "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" or "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft" when asked if they should buy an Apple Computer.

But on an "Enterprise Level" and as a default workstation in an IT Department, the Mac loses out. Once it gets one of those 32 processors or more on an OSX cluster machine, and gets accepted by IT Managers, then it can be taken seriously.

Apple was the enemy of IBM way back when Apple had started. IBM saw Apple as a "toy computer company", and thought it would be cute to make their own "toy computer" based on Intel technology that was an almost copy of the Apple ][ design with expansion slots, etc. Apple had dominated the market from the mid 1970's to the early 1980's, and may have been seen as a villian by some, but they were totally against IBM, and IBM's big iron systems. Apple claimed an Apple ][ could do the same sort of things as an IBM Mainframe or Minicomputer at the fraction of the cost. VisiCalc on the Apple ][, for example, allowed small businesses to handle some simple accounting problems, but IBM followed suit with the IBM PC and got Microsoft to write a version of DOS for it, and the rest is history. Once IBM learned that using off the shelf Intel type parts, that anyone could also use, and one someone figured out how to make an IBM compatible BIOS, and Microsoft sold MS-DOS to the IBM PC Cloners, it was too late. The Genie was out of the bottle and granting wishes to anyone who OEMed MS-DOS and later Windows. Now Microsoft is the villian. Had IBM wrote their own DOS, or used DRI instead, history would have unfolded differently.