Well as you can read here:
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_End_Of_An_Era.txt&characters=Jean-Louis%20Gassee&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date
The less then 20K units sold a month was much less then expected and lead to Jobs being fired down the road.
Granted I should have said uncommon (not rare), since quite a few of those that were sold ended up modified, broken, or recycled by now.
In my opinion they sold because of it being a ground breaking product (and the 1984 commercial probably helped the hype), but by the time usefull apps by 3rd parties were showing up more RAM was needed to make the machine still usable.
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_End_Of_An_Era.txt&characters=Jean-Louis%20Gassee&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date
The less then 20K units sold a month was much less then expected and lead to Jobs being fired down the road.
Granted I should have said uncommon (not rare), since quite a few of those that were sold ended up modified, broken, or recycled by now.
In my opinion they sold because of it being a ground breaking product (and the 1984 commercial probably helped the hype), but by the time usefull apps by 3rd parties were showing up more RAM was needed to make the machine still usable.