Editing Apple Lisa (section)

===Launch===
Lisa was announced on January 19, 1983.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/apple-lisa|title=The Lisa Was Apple's Best Failure | magazine=IEEE Spectrum | publisher=[[IEEE]] | first=Hsu | last=Hansen | date=January 19, 2023 | access-date=August 6, 2024}}</ref> By then, the press discussed rumors of Macintosh as a much less-expensive Apple computer with similar functionality, perhaps planned for late 1983.<ref name="bytelines198211">{{Cite magazine |last=Libes |first=Sol |date=November 1982 |title=Bytelines |url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-11/page/n565/mode/1up?view=theater |magazine=BYTE |pages=540–547}}</ref> ''Apple Confidential'' said, "Even before the Lisa began shipping in June, the press was full of intentionally-leaked rumors about a fall release of a 'baby Lisa' that would work in much the same way, only faster and cheaper. Its name: Macintosh."<ref name="AC"/>{{rp|79}} Lisa's low sales were quickly surpassed by the January 1984 launch of the Macintosh. Newer versions of the Lisa were introduced that addressed its faults and lowered its price considerably, but it failed to achieve sales comparable to the much less expensive Mac. The Macintosh project assimilated a lot more Lisa staff. The final revision, the Lisa 2/10, was modified and sold as the [[Macintosh XL]].<ref name="AC"/>{{rp|79}}