A later sentence makes it clear he talks of desktop PCs. A nice sound bite, but is it true?
The first counterexample I thought of is Sony, but they left the market and returned, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Electronics.
HP, on the other hand, I would call a valid counterexample. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80 certainly is PC-like, and was released in January 1980, so HP was making desktop computers when Apple "started the Mac", even if we take that to be in 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh#Development_and_intro... shows that the project started in 1979)
Anybody know of clearer counterexamples?
A later sentence makes it clear he talks of desktop PCs. A nice sound bite, but is it true?
The first counterexample I thought of is Sony, but they left the market and returned, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Electronics.
HP, on the other hand, I would call a valid counterexample. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80 certainly is PC-like, and was released in January 1980, so HP was making desktop computers when Apple "started the Mac", even if we take that to be in 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh#Development_and_intro... shows that the project started in 1979)
Anybody know of clearer counterexamples?