Is Macintosh the Edsel of the computer world?

Is it safe to say that a software product chosen by 90 % (What was Microsoft's market share again?) of customers must, by necessity, be better than the rest?

If more than one s y s t e m competes for market dominance, it is rarely the technically superior system that wins the race.
Rather, it seems that the company wielding a maximum of ruthless power, succeeds in pushing competitors out of the market.

There is at least one software company out there with more financial muscle than innovative drive.

Two examples from the industrial history of USA/Japan/Europe, where the choice of standards fell on an inferior product:

From the race between Betamax, Video 2000 and VHS for supremacy in home video systems VHS emerged as the winner.

When, in the course of standardisation, industry had to decide which PC operating system to continue in corporate networks, the decision was for IBM/Microsoft.