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Compare The Life Before Apple And The French Revolution

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The French revolution is important because it caused a change in power for France, abolishing the monarchy and creating a government where everyone could vote and decide on their leader instead of having a king who wasn't chosen and might not make the best decisions. The existing power structure in France before the revolution in 1789 was that the king, Louis XVI, ruled over France in a monarchical way and the poor people barely had enough to feed their families because the taxes were so high. So the poor people worked and the bulk of the money they earned was taxed by the nobles. However there was also a third estate comprised of the rich non-nobles which disliked their leads so much that they created a convention against the king. The privileges they were fighting for were the right to vote, the right to choose their own leaders, and the right of nourishment because the poor people had nothing. By comparison, the Apple revolution was also important because it created a new competition for IBM but at the same time let the people have a choice of computers. The life before Apple was that the people could mostly only buy computers from IBM because they were the only large company selling computers. IBM controlled the market and therefore the people, so Apple decided to change the power structure …show more content…

The new power structure after the Apple revolution was that the people could now have a choice of computers instead of being forced to go to IBM. So the new power structure had Apple on top as the “leaders”. Now Apple is continuing to do well and still hasn't dropped out of the computer market even though there's a lot of concurrence. This is because Apple before and also now are able to compete with their opponents in both business and consumer segments of the

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