I was thrilled when I heard about the NeXT merger, but Apple was still on very shaky ground at that point. When Steve showed the Aqua UI at MacWorld Expo in 2000 was when I knew they were going to pull through.
If you're going to skip over literally everything that doesn't suit an absurd premise, how about Steve Jobs died of cancer so not a success story?
NeXT was a failure, some of its failed components and its CEO got resurrected to restore a separate failed business. The success story was Apple's comeback, not NeXT.
Aqua and the iMac saved Apple. (Score:4, Insightful)
I was thrilled when I heard about the NeXT merger, but Apple was still on very shaky ground at that point. When Steve showed the Aqua UI at MacWorld Expo in 2000 was when I knew they were going to pull through.
-jcr
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Apple made it, NeXT didn't. Somewhere in there is a business lesson.
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That statement makes no sense at all.
Steve Jobs lost his job at Apple.
Founded NeXT. Made NeXT create its BSD based OS.
Apple came into really trouble: they bought NeXT and hired Steve Jobs again.
And MacOs is now based on BSD and some NeXT remnants.
Sounds like a great success story for NeXT to me.
Re:Aqua and the iMac saved Apple. (Score:1)
If you're going to skip over literally everything that doesn't suit an absurd premise, how about Steve Jobs died of cancer so not a success story?
NeXT was a failure, some of its failed components and its CEO got resurrected to restore a separate failed business. The success story was Apple's comeback, not NeXT.
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NeXT was by no means a failure. Sorry, have some bad memory or something?
NeXT was not as successful as Apple later, but thats it.