Labels:book | hakham | person | reckoner OCR: THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY HISTORY CAREERS AND ETHICS 5 0 5 Market share graphs for personal computer manufacturers software pub- lishers, operating system developers, Internet service providers, and handheld computer manufacturers provide roadmap to the changing for- tunes of companies in the computer industry Competition fierce in all segments the industry, and market share is one indicator of company's ability to steal sales from its rivals The top companies are constantly chal- lenged not only by their peers, but by startup companies in lower tiers of the industry What's the relevance of market tiers? Since 1981 hundreds of companies have produced personal computers Industry analysts have classified these companies into market tiers, or categories Although ana- lysts op not agree on which c ...
