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by rasz
1252 days ago
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>"The Macintosh sold 50,000 units in 74 days, outselling every other computer" "Apple had sold 280,000 Macintoshes compared to IBM's first-year sales of fewer than 100,000 PCs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Macintosh#1985%... Commodore 64 sold ~300K in 4 months of 1982 alone, and kept outselling everything up until ~1986. 1 million units in first 16 months. 3.5 million units year later https://pctimeline.info/c64/. 6 million at the end of 1986. https://www.pagetable.com/docs/c64_sales/12.png |
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I'm not claiming the Macintosh was initially the best selling computer of all time, merely that it wasn't a commercial failure as claimed. There's a huge range. Selling less than C64 or Apple II doesn't make a product a failure.