Originally Posted by veeten
then again, Betamax was better than VHS in all respects, and how did that particular competition turn out? VHS outselling Beta by a mile, all because there were more units on the shelves where you could choose from, and the ease of replacement of parts because of their availability and interchangeability. All of this leads to lower cost of unit production.
Beta was the opposite, and this led to its marginalisation in the overall market.
In some ways, it is the same way with the Windows/Mac competition, where you have several makers of PC's, and all the choices of what you want, versus being, virtually, locked into Apple's high cost, soup-to-nuts world.
And, as we can see by the overall sales numbers, still hasn't caught up to the number of Windows-based machines.
It's a glorified minority, but still a minority... ;)