My guess is that Jobs would have made his killing by selling Pixar to Disney — and would be CEO of that company. The funny thing about NeXT and Pixar is that th

My guess is that Jobs would have made his killing by selling Pixar to Disney — and would be CEO of that company. The funny thing about NeXT and Pixar is that they re-energized two giant companies. By the way had Disney purchased Pixar they might also have grabbed NeXT and that company (sort of like Sony) could be in the computer biz. It's also interesting to note that the founders of Google were interested in Steve Jobs as CEO when they first started — so they may have purchased NeXT to do that and poor Eric Schmidt would have been out in the cold these last few years. As for Apple without Jobs my guess is that they could either have faded or "just held on" by adopting the Be Inc. operating system (and perhaps Jean-Louis Gassée as well). My guess is that if Apple was in fade mode they would have been merged with Sun or purchased by Oracle.