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"Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M,.." Hah - ain't that the truth.
by camperman 11y ago
"Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M,.."
Hah - ain't that the truth.
- rajacombinator 11y agoDid not understand that line ... Implies NeXT had to pay Apple 400M?? In what sense?
- panic 11y agoApple paid 400M to acquire NeXT, but NeXT's management ended up taking over the company. So really, NeXT paid -$400M to acquire Apple. It's like how Pixar acquired Disney for -$7.4B.
- mikeash 11y agoSoftware too. Mac OS X (and later, iOS) is a direct continuation of NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP OSes. Objective-C came to Apple from NeXT. All the Cocoa APIs used on the Mac come from NeXT, and the UIKit APIs used for iOS development are a direct descendant of them. The modern Apple contains very little of pre-1996 Apple but lots of pre-1996 NeXT.
- tambourine_man 11y agoIt's a common joke that Apple paid for the privilege of being acquired by Next