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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
One day they may have clone MACs and if that happened I'd make the switch. Until then I'll keep using my Lenovo.
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John Sculley tried that and proved there is more to a Mac than the OS.
There is a fundamental difference between an Apple product and a generic PC. The PCs are a commodity - like a bushel of corn. They're all about the same, with the basic difference being price and service. The Mac is built to a standard of quality, not price. When Scully tried to commoditize the Mac he ended up with a bunch of assemblers fighting to build the
cheapest computer that would run the Mac OS. Apple had always worked to build the
best computer to run the Mac OS. What happened was predictable. Disaster for Apple and a stain on its reputation.