WI the original Macintosh had launched as per Jobs' plan?

When the original Macintosh launched in 1984, its sales were a disappointment: having been projected to sell 2 000 000 units in the first year, it only sold about 250 000. It's strongly arguable that these disappointing sales were the result of two changes made to Steve Jobs' product vision by CEO John Sculley:
  1. reducing the RAM from 512 kB to 128 kB; and
  2. increasing the list price from $1495 to $2495.
What if the original Macintosh had shipped with the full 512 kB RAM at a $1495 price tag? Would the Mac have sold more strongly in its first year, enough to make up for the reduced margin? Would the larger install base and higher RAM capacity have encouraged software developers to build applications for the system? How would the PC market be different today?
 
When the original Macintosh launched in 1984, its sales were a disappointment: having been projected to sell 2 000 000 units in the first year, it only sold about 250 000. It's strongly arguable that these disappointing sales were the result of two changes made to Steve Jobs' product vision by CEO John Sculley:
  1. reducing the RAM from 512 kB to 128 kB; and
  2. increasing the list price from $1495 to $2495.
What if the original Macintosh had shipped with the full 512 kB RAM at a $1495 price tag? Would the Mac have sold more strongly in its first year, enough to make up for the reduced margin? Would the larger install base and higher RAM capacity have encouraged software developers to build applications for the system? How would the PC market be different today?
It would have gotten more buyers.. I doubt a game changer. 512 would have made it more negotiable and palatable. The original mac realy wasn't that ground breaking. Slow as dirt, black and white, over priced and over hyped. Look and apple IIe with a cute interface. Oh and with out the compatability..

The real game changer came a few months later in the Amiga, the system everyone took the next 10 years catching up to. (oh and yes it had flaws too.. And never was the front runner . But it was light years beyond other machines and the bench mark for the modern multitasking and muktimedia platform . Hell they did multimedia before it was even a term.

Save for education the mac wasn't going to be the hit jobs thought since the Mac didn't have that market that the pc did.

Commodore couldn't even achieve that either. And they had the 64 . The best selling home computer of all time. They also had Commodore management
 
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