20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
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20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
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Re: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
#2The standard snark is that NeXT bought Apple for -$400 million.
Re: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
#3You mean Apple bought back Steve Jobs, right?
Re: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
#4My father's most regretted financial move is ignoring his weird thought to buy 10 shares of Apple stock at this time.
Re: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
#5You mean Apple bought back Steve Jobs, right?
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#6>> What came out of this deal not only saved Apple and the Mac, but made the iPhone, iPad and more possible as well.
What prevents Apple from making the iPhone and iPad? They could have bought Palm, QNX, did something based on Linux...
What was the key? BSD? Objective-C? I don't see those being that important.
The one thing NeXT did enable them to do was the PowerPC to Intel switch.
Re: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
#7>> What came out of this deal not only saved Apple and the Mac, but made the iPhone, iPad and more possible as well. What prevents Apple from making the iPhone and iPad? They could have bought Palm, QNX, did something based on Linux... What was the key? BSD? Objective-C? I don't see those being that important. The one thing NeXT did enable them to do was the PowerPC to Intel switch.
Steve Jobs.
Re: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
#8"I’d argue that this is probably the single most important tech acquisition of all time."
Microsoft buys the pieces that eventually become MS-DOS?
Going back further, pharma companies buying tech that they turned into mass produced antibiotics and gave us the sulfa drug revolution?
Apple buying NeXT hardly compares to the acquisition of steel smelting.
Re: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
#9It would be great if someone wrote an article about the alternate histories where Apple chose other strategies. For instance, what an Apple-Be merge would have resulted in, what kind of products and tech. And how NeXT would have lasted without Apple.
Re: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT
#10>> What came out of this deal not only saved Apple and the Mac, but made the iPhone, iPad and more possible as well. What prevents Apple from making the iPhone and iPad? They could have bought Palm, QNX, did something based on Linux... What was the key? BSD? Objective-C? I don't see those being that important. The one thing NeXT did enable them to do was the PowerPC to Intel switch.
Steve Jobs.
True. And at least they got a working OS out of the deal instead of futzing with Copland or Taligent for who knows how long.
Imagine if our iPhones ran BeOS.