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"NeXT was a pure software company" The iconic NeXT cube (and NeXTStations) would disagree with you there.
by TickleSteve 5y ago
"NeXT was a pure software company"
The iconic NeXT cube (and NeXTStations) would disagree with you there.
- walrus01 5y agoBy the time apple acquired them, their board had long abandoned the idea of being a hardware manufacturer due to collosal financial losses. The next hardware is cool to look at in retrospect but was very expensive and sold poorly. After 1995 or so next was in no financial state to design and ship any new hardware.
- TickleSteve 5y agoIgnoring the quality of the business, NeXT is quite well known for their hardware.
- walrus01 5y agohistorically and in the bigger picture of things, yes, but in the late 1990s by the time that it came to NeXT getting acquired by apple, their hardware was long since irrelevant.
- panick21_ 5y agoYou should look up the history. At that time they basically were a software company and not very successful either. Without being bought by Apple its likely they would have died. Its actually kind of crazy how high NEXT got valued.
- TickleSteve 5y agoHaving an unsuccessful hardware business does not equate to being "pure" software. Despite not being successful, they were well known for their hardware.
- pjmlp 5y agoMy graduation thesis was porting a particle engine my supervisor originally developed on NeXT, from Objective-C into C++/Windows/OpenGL, as means to carry on further research on it. The Cube where it was originally developed, was lying on a corner on his office as no one believed it had any future left.