In 1994, Apple began offering licenses to produce Macintosh clone computers. The move came nearly 10 years late. Windows already had 80% market share then, leaving Apple with just about 7%. Apple had hoped to sign a big company. Instead they got a small startup called Power Computing. But as Power quickly exploded from 0 to $130 million to nearly $400 million in annual revenue...Apple started to get second thoughts. In today's video, the explosive rise and collapse of the Mac Clone king.
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