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As users became more adept , Apple’s closed architecture made PC hobbyists move to what was called an IBM PC.

You've got a cause and effect that don't go together. The growth in PC sales was due to price differences for first time computer buyers: "You mean I can get a complete computer and all this software for less than half the price of an Apple computer? Well, a computer is a computer, so, sure, I'll take the PC." The hobbyist came about by having to deal with a whole lot more unexpected weird crap caused by a wide variety of PCs from a wide variety of manufacturers and the varying degrees to which the Microsoft OS was successfully implemented or not on these machines, leading to people saying things like my mechanical engineering friend from UF, "Yeah, and that's what makes the PC a better computer because I'm always having to figure out what's going wrong and that makes me better at dealing with computers."

"You mean I can get a complete computer and all this software for less than half the price of an Apple computer?"

Open architecture and the resulting competitiveness, is what reduced the prices of IBM PC and parts.