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For all intents and purposes, if you had no exposure to BeOS, you won't really get why this project exists. It is so crazy to think that we could be living in

For all intents and purposes, if you had no exposure to BeOS, you won't really get why this project exists. It is so crazy to think that we could be living in a completely different world today had Apple opted to acquire BeOS instead of NeXT.

toyg 6y ago
I suspect Apple would have struggled to attract the amount of developers they did, by moving to a non-unix systems; which in turn might have hampered their efforts on mobile.
- slantyyz 6y ago
  Well the bigger impact is that Steve Jobs may not have ever returned to Apple.