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When reading the caricature of a product-focused company, I couldn't help but think of NeXT. NeXT was before my time (I was about 8 when the first NeXT computer
by mwcampbell 6y ago
When reading the caricature of a product-focused company, I couldn't help but think of NeXT. NeXT was before my time (I was about 8 when the first NeXT computer came out, and completely unaware of what they did until decades later), but I've read about them and watched their first launch event [1]. It's obvious from that presentation that they were state-of-the-art, way ahead of their time. But from what I've read, NeXT computers didn't sell very well. I'd be interested in any detailed postmortem of NeXT's failures.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92NNyd3m79I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92NNyd3m79I
- dragonwriter 6y agoThe impression I got at the time was that NeXT was selling a fairly high-end Unix workstation with features that made it a better desktop PC than contemporary workstations, but lacked the enterprise sales experience to hit most of the Unix workstation market (which also had considerable vendor lock-in, so it was hard to get people to switch) while having a price point that, despite the features, made it a very hard sell as a PC replacement. The nonstandard storage on the original NeXT probably didn’t help, but that waa addressed quickly with the second generation machines which had more traditional storage.