Editing Apple IIc (section)

==Reception==
Although Apple predicted that it would sell 100,000 IIc computers per month, it sold an average of 100,000 per year over four years; even the unsuccessful PCjr outsold it during each computer's first year on the market.<ref name="maher20130728">{{cite web | url=http://www.filfre.net/2013/07/a-computer-for-every-home/ | title=A Computer for Every Home? | publisher=The Digital Antiquarian | date=2013-07-28 | access-date=19 March 2016 | author=Maher, Jimmy | archive-date=July 11, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711193125/http://www.filfre.net/2013/07/a-computer-for-every-home/ | url-status=live }}</ref> The IIe was much more popular than the IIc because of its greater expandability, with the latter not outselling the former until late 1984,<ref name="webster198509">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1985-09/1985_09_BYTE_10-09_Homebrewing#page/n383/mode/2up | title=West Coast Faire, Mac Stuff, and the Amiga | work=BYTE | date=September 1985 | access-date=20 March 2016 | author=Webster, Bruce | pages=401}}</ref><ref name="byte198610">{{cite news | title=The Apple II GS | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1986-10/1986_10_BYTE_11-10_Public_Domain_Powerhouses#page/n95/mode/2up | work=BYTE | date=October 1986 | access-date=4 November 2013 |author1=Williams, Gregg |author2=Grehan, Richard | pages=84}}</ref> but Apple almost stopped production of the IIe because of the IIc's expected popularity, causing a shortage of the former and glut of the latter.{{r|maher20130728}} However, according to Paul Kunkel in ''AppleDesign'', Apple sold more than 400,000 Apple IIc computers in the first year, most of the sales including the matching monitor.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kunkel |first=Paul |title=AppleDesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group |date=1998 |publisher=Graphis Press |isbn=978-1-888001-25-9 |location=New York, N.Y|page=40}}</ref>

While noting its lack of an internal modem and inability to use expansion cards such as the popular [[Z-80 SoftCard]], ''[[Byte (magazine)|BYTE]]'' in May 1984 described the Apple IIc as a "head-to-head [competitor] with the IBM PCjr" for novice computer users.<ref name="markoff198405">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-05/1984_05_BYTE_09-05_Computers_and_the_Professions#page/n283/mode/2up | title=The Apple IIc Personal Computer | work=BYTE | date=May 1984 | access-date=October 23, 2013 | author=Markoff, John | pages=282}}</ref> ''[[Creative Computing]]'' agreed, stating in July 1984 that "This war will have no clear winner. Apple fans will buy the IIc, and IBM fans will buy the PCjr. I believe the Apple II will live forever", with the IIc as the "final transmutation" of the Apple II because it was about as small as a computer with a full-sized keyboard and 5 1/4" drive could be.{{r|miller198407}} The magazine said in December 1984 that the IIe and IIc were the best home computers with prices above $500, with the IIc better for those using word processing and business software.<ref name="ahl198412">{{Cite magazine |last=Ahl |first=David H. |author-link=David H. Ahl |date=December 1984 |title=Top 12 computers of 1984 |url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n12/10_Top_12_computers_of_1984.php |magazine=Creative Computing |access-date=2019-03-16 |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512050936/https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n12/10_Top_12_computers_of_1984.php |url-status=live }}</ref>