Consumer electronics major Pioneer Electric Corp has only been shipping its Macintosh clones (they are not really clones because it buys its motherboards from Apple Computer Inc itself) for just over a year, but already it is scaling back its commitment to the Macintosh and following Kojima Co to a dual-standard strategy (CI No 3,014). It will add a Pentium board to its next machines – presumably Apple’s DOS Compatible board – so that the machines can run Windows as well as Mac OS. The Nippon Keizai Shimbun reckons sales of the new PowerPC Platform models will begin next spring, and says Pioneer has been losing money on computers because of the popularity of Windows boxes.
