I believe Xanadu and AMIX were canceled when Carol Bartz took over as CEO in 1992. That may well have been the right business decision to make, but it wasn't a

I believe Xanadu and AMIX were canceled when Carol Bartz took over as CEO in 1992. That may well have been the right business decision to make, but it wasn't a programmer decision. And yes, it seems that Apple is a carefully crafted corporate machine that needs a design-focused highly-opinionated control-oriented person at the top. It will be interesting to someday watch Apple transition to being a post-Jobs company. (full disclosure, I worked at both NeXT and Autodesk)