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If you wanted (or needed) color it was. Apple underestimated this feature for graphics and games and when the color EGA 286's from IBM/Zenith etc came out they answered the only shorcoming of the PC, while Apple seemed to be going backwards to the tiny B/W screen.

A high-resolution, high-frequency color screen would have been prohibitively expensive in the original Mac, but the operating system did contain some support for color graphics. The original Mac also supported networked laser printers when PCs were restricted to impact dot matrix printers. Given the choice of Apple ][/DOS low resolution color graphics and Mac's crisp, professional looking black and white graphics, most professionals would choose the Mac.

The Mac patterns were hard on the eyes, many people just upgraded to RGB cards in their Apple II's instead, even the IIc's. But that full Apple II market was squandered as the IIGS was way too late and many of us had already gone with PCs. And NOT PCs from IBM.

I for one wish Apple well, always have. They've just never done anything to lure me back. If they lowered their price some, it would help.