NeXT's "success" is definitely owed to the Apple acquisition, which almost didn't happen. DBKit was basically discarded and redesigned as EOF, which did make i

NeXT's "success" is definitely owed to the Apple acquisition, which almost didn't happen. DBKit was basically discarded and redesigned as EOF, which did make it into the Mac. I'm not sure EOF made it into the iPhone, but the tech lead on EOF Richard Williamson, became tech lead for the first iPhone application stack.