I want to know the answer to the following question:
What did Apple's creation of too many similar models do to potential buyers?
All the background I'm provided with is that "This succeeded in increasing the Macintosh's market share somewhat, and provided cheaper hardware for consumers, but hurt Apple financially as existing Apple customers began to buy cheaper clones which cannibalized the sales of Apple's higher-margin Macintosh systems, yet Apple still shouldered the burden of developing the Mac OS platform.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no