I remember seeing an Apple II demonstration running at a expo in the 70s.Drooled but couldn’t afford one.Probably should have been 3.5 and 5.25 inch floppy disks;and each required a different drive unit. I still have a lot of legacy hardware stored.Apple,Atari,Commodore,Amiga,Tandy,IBM and PC clones each had their good and bad features.
IBM type became standard because of business managers.
There was a Mac SE30 still used only by authorized personnel in my work as late as late 1995.
Apple was easier to use IF there was(is) a program available for your needs.But more costly . Many of 8 bit machines were good to learn Basic and ML .
Today’s smartphone has more power than mainframes of the 1970s!
I remember Apple IIe’s having 5.25 floppies when they first arrived. 3.5s became common later (boy, did we think 1.44MB was just the cat’s meow! LOL).
IBM compatible became standard because of the open architecture, which made competition for hardware monies a way for the business managers to save a few dimes.
JMHO, of course - I am not a tech historian. I’m just an aging engineer in the aerospace computing industry! LOL
Today's smartphone has more computing power than the computers used on Apollo 11.
I loved the SE30, probably the best classic one-box Mac ever made, despite the small b&w screen.