Labels:book | chat room | crt screen | earth | grass | hakham | monitor | plant | sky OCR: 6-20 THE COMPUTER MARKETPLACE Ma rke Tiers What accounts for price differences for computers with the same speci ifications from different vendors? Since 1981. hundreds of companies have produced personal com puters. Industry analysts often refer three tiers 10 categories of microcor mputer compa- nies although not al analysts aqree on which companies belong in each tier The top tier consists large companies that have been in the computer business for more than ten years pue have an identifiable percentage of total computer sales -companies such as IBM Apple Compaq and Hewlett- Packard. The second tier includes newer companies with high sales svolume with sormewhat less sfinancial resources than companies in the first tier Most analysts place companies such Gateway, Dell, and Packard Bell ...
