ease of adding or upgrading it capabilities. The IBM-compatible computers have been becoming
increasingly more popular with the school systems, because of Apple going down hill and having
less and less software available for it.
The IBM and Macintosh computers have been in competition with each other for years, and each
of them have their strong points. Apple dominated in the personal computer market when it first
started, but when the IBM clone was created that started its downfall. Some of Apple s earlier
decisions caused it to lose in the battle with IBM as well. Motorola as its chip manufacturer,
caused them to be one step behind the Intel based IBM-compatibles. Not licensing out its
software so that third parties could create software for it, was also a down fall for it. Now, that
the IBM-compatible computer has a strong support it is very unlikely that Apple will be able to
bring back a large user group for its personal computer, even though their computers are faster.