All true. I think this is good evidence we live in the best of all possible worlds: A Jobs/NeXT WWW browser a couple of years ahead of Netscape probably would h

All true. I think this is good evidence we live in the best of all possible worlds: A Jobs/NeXT WWW browser a couple of years ahead of Netscape probably would have fared even worse against Microsoft's inevitable counterattack. For all we know, we could have ended up in a "Blackbird" (aka MSN) dominated universe, and without a revitalized Apple to give us Unix on the desktop. Still, I do find it totally plausible that Jobs could have been inspired to redirect NeXT's struggling business to the nascent web. Some of those old WebObjects interviews that get posted to HN periodically demonstrate the he "got" the web and its potential as an application delivery platform much earlier than most.