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Didn't apple choose NeXT largely in part of beOS notoriously hard to skin nature?

• spooneybarger 15y ago
  hard to skin nature?
  • deleted 15y ago
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  • sharmajai 15y ago
    I think hard to change the visual look and feel is what he means.
• i386 15y ago
  No. NeXT was cheaper, they got the original visionary back to Apple and NeXT had a revenue stream (From my understanding Be Inc didn't have one to speak of).
  • jbellis 15y ago
    NeXT was not cheaper; Gassee wanted 275M for BeOS, and they bought NeXT for 429.
    • rdl 15y ago
      NeXT was a bigger, more mature company with more assets and revenue, so even if you discount Jobs, buying NeXT for 429mm is less overpriced than Be for 275mm.
      • flomo 15y ago
        On the other hand, NeXT's main source of revenue was WebObjects, something Apple wasn't really interested in marketing. The operating system was pretty much a back catalog item.
        • philwelch 15y ago
          Except WebObjects was used for the Apple Store, and later the iTunes Store.