8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
5:27 p.m.
On 10/08/2011 08:19 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Now we're done beating Apple down, we can talk
about what NeXT did that
was ahead of its time. :)
- booted from Apple, Jobs sold all but one Apple share for a $400m
windfall.
- Founded NeXT with $7m and A LOT to prove.
- Spec'd a ridiculous dream workstation: DSP, MO, 12" cube magnesium
chassis, matt black, exotic UNIX, Display PostScript, Objective C,
megapixel display with grey scale (and later, deep colour).
NeXT is therefore a vanity product & its failure in the market was
predictable. Discuss.
The hardware was friggin' FANTASTIC, and the OS was years ahead of
its time. (and has stood the test of time, as the roots of OS X) I'm
not sure it's fair to label something as a "vanity product" just because
it was designed with pie-in-the-sky specs.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA