8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
5:31 p.m.
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, 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.
Lisa/NeXT were progreesive attempts towards Jobs' dream. (which was WAY
different from Woniak's dream!)
CLOSED. Avoidance of industry standard removable storage.
HI-res B&W (was Jobs, by any chance, color blind?)