![]() This continued to be the case throughout 1996. ![]() In 1995, UMAX was the leading Taiwanese scanner maker, with a market share of 13% second worldwide behind Hewlett-Packard (HP). UMAX could not remain profitable selling only these systems, however it briefly made IBM PC compatible computers in the mid-1990s, but since then UMAX has mainly concentrated on manufacturing scanners. UMAX's license for Mac OS 8 expired in July 1998. After Steve Jobs returned to Apple as the new CEO, he revoked all of the clone producers' licenses to produce Mac clones except for UMAX, due to their sub-US$1,000 low-end offerings, a market in which Apple was not strong, and UMAX's stated desire to expand the Macintosh platform's presence in East Asian markets. The C500 was marketed as the Apus 2000 in Europe. Their models included the SuperMac S900/S910, J700, C500 and C500e/i/LT, C600e/v/LT/x and Aegis 200. UMAX was formerly a maker of Apple Macintosh clones, using the SuperMac brand name outside of Europe.
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