There's a good chance that Apple wouldn't exist today if it went down the BeOS road. Not because BeOS was bad (I liked it and played with it for a while back in

There's a good chance that Apple wouldn't exist today if it went down the BeOS road. Not because BeOS was bad (I liked it and played with it for a while back in the day and with Haiku more recently), but going with NeXT got Apple Steve Jobs back, and that's what really saved them.