Apple VS. PC

First off, Apple products are cool. I like them, for ease of use and elegance. Simplicity in design that's the key. Microsoft copied the idea.

The Macintosh, advertised as "the computer for the rest of us", was the first PC that aimed at a user-group of novices. Apple believed in a system of combining hardware and software to a whole. Users were always forced to buy Apple's expensive hardware to use the Macintosh GUI. And the GUI was the essential revolution: it enabled everybody to use and understand a computer within small time. The Mac GUI superseded command-line interfaces that were only known by specialists, and became a paradigm for Human-Computer Interaction that has not been broken until today.


Windows 1995
In 1990 Microsoft, a software company selling a command-line Operating system called MS Dos, finally managed to introduce a GUI for their Windows Operating System, using exactly the same metaphors as Macintosh. Windows 3.0 was very successful - it became the standard operating system on the PC-market, later followed by the even more successful Windows 95 package. Microsoft's strategy of monopolising the market by selling whole software-packages and introducing an upgrading system for software soon made Microsoft the market-leader in PC software.