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The sequence of events are linked. NeXT was hugely successful as it became the foundation of OS X and without it he'd never have returned. The individual produc
by sys_64738 4y ago
The sequence of events are linked. NeXT was hugely successful as it became the foundation of OS X and without it he'd never have returned. The individual product lines were a multiple amounts of luck too (Mac, iPod, iPhone, etc).
- WalterBright 4y ago> The sequence of events are linked Not really. Look at Jobs' second coming to Apple. He replaced a sequence of CEOs that all failed to turn Apple around. Jobs turned a near-bankrupt company into the biggest company in the world, with the same crew and technology of the near-bankrupt company. Pixar enormous success was Jobs' doing. Nobody else believed in Pixar. NeXT was a failure, but Jobs found a way to salvage it.
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- sys_64738 4y ago> NeXT was a failure, but Jobs found a way to salvage it. He sold that failure for $429m.
- WalterBright 4y agoNeXT only sold 50,000 computers, which is considered a failure. Likely the $400m was really to buy Jobs.