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Where, exactly, did he take NeXT? Also remember, Jobs was the driving force behind the AAGI wage-fixing cartel.
by DrScump 8y ago
Where, exactly, did he take NeXT?
Also remember, Jobs was the driving force behind the AAGI wage-fixing cartel.
- Tloewald 8y agoIt’s running the Mac and iPhone.
- sudhirj 8y agoArguably, NeXT was the mother of today’s Apple. The old Apple bought NeXT along with Jobs, and the new products were basically NeXT technology with an Apple logo.
- sudhirj 8y agoThis is why everything in the Mac and iOS SDK is prefixed with NS - think it stands for NeXT Step?
- saagarjha 8y agoCould also be NeXT/SUN–but there's clearly a NeXT in there either way.
- mmjaa 8y agoYou are correct - the NS* stands for "Next/Sun" ...
- saagarjha 8y agoDoes anyone have a counterpoint to this? I've heard both, so I'm curious if any one is "more correct".
- mmjaa 8y agoI've heard both too, but I've seen docs that refer to the "NextSTEP/Sun" namespace .. somewhere buried deep in the Apple docs .. but I can't find it now. Either way, both "NextSTEP" and "NextSTEP/SUN" have been used to answer this question in the past, so I'd say both are correct .. especially since Sun left the project early.
- Bahamut 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977053
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoYes, that's exactly what it stands for - see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/473758/what-does-the-ns-prefix-mean https://stackoverflow.com/questions/473758/what-does-the-ns-....
- pking 8y agoNeXT is definitely the mother of today's Apple. OSX is the NeXT operating system and application stack repackaged with the Mac look-and-feel. More importantly, Steve put the entire NeXT management team in all the VP roles at Apple, where they were in charge of reworking the entire Apple software stack. iOS is a stripped-down version of OSX.
- mfontani 8y agoNeXT bought Apple for negative $400M
- icelancer 8y ago>> Where, exactly, did he take NeXT? To your iPhone.