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This won't be controversial at all (thelemmy.club)
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/68636679

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[–] 7 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Oh interesting!

But funnily enough these ads didn't air where I grew up and Apple was never even close to the price of a non-Apple PC

Oh and: Apple, you've sold PCs as well! Just because you picked up a cat and put stripes on it you couldn't just proclaim "look, a tiger!". But then again ... You could. And you did. And in still furious that people bought it.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 hours ago* (3 children)

    tbh, didn’t PC have a more strict definition back then?* specifically, an IBM PC compatible? so, intel processor + DOS (and later OS/2 or windows), which isn’t what apple sold

    *(genuinely asking, i was not around in the 90s 😅)

    (tho i guess even by that definition, intel macs were PCs lol, but that was way later)

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago* (1 child)

    the two definitions (general Personal Computer, or IBM-compatible) always co-existed in different contexts.

    aside - even though Apple ads really drove the Macs Vs PCs thing - before they went Intel, Apple computers used to have IBM PowerPC architecture processors.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    You know that's another good point, while I was around then and even had a computer back then I'm from a non English country and just learned "PC == personal computer". It never occurred to me that Apple might have reacted to a US terms or definition up until this very moment it was always "they just wanna be different and fancy".

    Perhaps a USA person my age bracket can give insights!

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