Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That is still small compared with giant NEC, which controls more than 50% of the personal-computer market in the country, but Apple hopes to reach a 7% share and sell 50% more computers this year, for $500 million. Maneuvering its way among behemoths like NEC, Fujitsu, IBM and Toshiba is no mean achievement for Apple, especially since overall personal-computer sales have slumped during the past two years. Says Satjiv Chahil, marketing vice president for Apple Pacific: "I think we have won Japan's respect...
...data equivalent to that carried by 1,000 regular computer disks or about 250,000 pages of text. At this point, fewer than 5% of personal computers are equipped with CD-ROM players because no standard exists: a CD- ROM for Apple, for example, does not run on an IBM machine and vice-versa. As a result, the industry is paralyzed; book publishers have made few titles available on CD-ROM, and computer manufacturers have shied away from pushing CD-ROM players...
...sole advertiser, IBM, appears in the pages of this issue. We are pleased that the company chose to associate itself with this project, a review of how far we've come in the past millennium and how much further we may be going in the next...
...IBM has long lost sales to low-cost competitors that make cheap PCs that work just like Big Blue's machines. The last straw came in June, when Compaq Computer Corp., a premium-priced clonemaker, came out with yet another inexpensive model. Now IBM is fighting back with its own set of budget machines, priced from about $1,100 to $2,800. They aren't the cheapest, but the company hopes their features will lure customers. Analysts predict rough times for the cloners...
...owners will take every advantage. Local politicians are obsessed with having their cities considered "major league." That means lavish tax breaks, awarding of ancillary revenue and, increasingly, funding of the team's stadium. No city would erect a skyscraper and then hand it over gratis to IBM or AT&T. But, writes Neil J. Sullivan in his book The Diamond Revolution, "elected officials across the country have fallen all over themselves to open the public purse to build stadiums that by every reasonable standard should have been paid for by the ball clubs that use them...