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By 1984, IBM's revenue from the PC market was $4 billion, more than twice that of Apple.<ref name="libes198509">{{cite news|author=Libes, Sol|date=September 1985|title=The Top Ten|page=418|work=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]|url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1985-09/1985_09_BYTE_10-09_Homebrewing#page/n401/mode/2up|access-date=October 27, 2013}}</ref> A 1983 study of corporate customers found that two thirds of large customers standardizing on one computer chose the PC, while only 9% chose Apple.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-09/1984_09_BYTE_09-09_Guide_to_the_IBM_PCs#page/n33/mode/2up|title=Byte Magazine Volume 09 Number 09 - Guide to the IBM PCs|date=Sep 1984}}</ref> A 1985 ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' survey found that 56% of American companies with personal computers used PCs while 16% used Apple.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pq3POofPsBEC | title=Ostracized PC1 Designer Still Ruminates 'Why?' | magazine=PC Magazine |volume=3| issue=18| date=September 18, 1984 | access-date=October 25, 2013 | author=Porter, Martin | page=33 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
Almost as soon as the PC reached the market, rumors of hardware and software compatible clones began,<ref name="pcommuniques19820203">{{cite news|date=February–March 1982|title=PCommuniques|page=5|work=PC Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_OhaFDePS4C&pg=PA5|access-date=October 20, 2013}}</ref> and the first legal [[IBM PC compatible|PC-compatible]] clone—the [[MPC 1600]] by [[Columbia Data Products]]—was released in June 1982, less than a year after the PC's debut.<ref>{{cite book | last=Rohlfs | first=Jeffrey H. | date=2003 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmFag8P4CF8C | title=Bandwagon Effects in High-technology Industries | publisher=MIT Press | page=122 | isbn=9780262681384 | via=Google Books}}</ref>
Eventually, IBM [[Acquisition of the IBM PC business by Lenovo|sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2004]].
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