In 1990 I workd for a tech company, we were desiging and building graphic workstations as used in aerospace, serious money ones. One rival was the likes of Sun Sparc workstation and the Mac got mentioned a number of times. I can see now why the Mac IIfx was such a hit, that SuperMac graphics card and the speed were quite something. Alas as the PC started to get better and cheaper our products died.
Before that I worked designing colour monitors, I did a multisync, the other dev team were working on a better multisync. One day a salesman brought us in a NEC multisync all ready and working. It killed off our product there and then as customers were wanting that product now. Ours was much more adaptable, CRTs trypes and case styles but that saw a decline.
Yes it's hard to make an industry standard or it was then as the market would change so fast, besides nowerdays the far east have the techinical ability, manufacturing and ability to work as a team which we can't.
Before that I worked designing colour monitors, I did a multisync, the other dev team were working on a better multisync. One day a salesman brought us in a NEC multisync all ready and working. It killed off our product there and then as customers were wanting that product now. Ours was much more adaptable, CRTs trypes and case styles but that saw a decline.
Yes it's hard to make an industry standard or it was then as the market would change so fast, besides nowerdays the far east have the techinical ability, manufacturing and ability to work as a team which we can't.