No NextSTEP was very valuable! At least in terms of a GUI and user interface development platform. According to most lore of that era which I’ve read it was as

No NextSTEP was very valuable! At least in terms of a GUI and user interface development platform. According to most lore of that era which I’ve read it was as an amazing developer platform [0]. There’s reason both Tim Berners-Lee’s little side project (the “WorldWideWeb") was developed on NextSTEP bought specifically for the project [1]. Or why Doom was written on Next machines as well [2]. The semi-dynamic features of Obj-C made a very power UI development system and the postscript backed graphics system was (likely) the first and only vector based display subsystem. Linux / BSDs and OS GUI frameworks still suck at handling hi-dpi in 2018. Well QT’s ok at it. Linux and PC BSDs were more primitive at the time Next was aquired, especially the UI subsystem and X11. So NextSTEP brought a powerful ahead-of-its-time graphics subsystem, solid BSD Unix based OS tools and services, and powerful dynamic development system and language. If that’s not valuable well by your estimation, it’s worked pretty well for the most valuable company in the US. 0: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-deep-history-of-your-apps-steve-jobs-nextstep-and-early-object-oriented-programming/ http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-deep-history-of-you... 1: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TimBook-old/History.html https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TimBook-old/History.html 2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/01/why-john-carmack-chose-next-for-developing-doom-and-other-favorites/#6371c37714d1 https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/01/why-john-carma...