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It was targeted at Universities, as a foothold customer, since it ended up too expensive for even prosumers. It ended up mostly finding uptake in custom apps i
by mrkstu 3y ago
It was targeted at Universities, as a foothold customer, since it ended up too expensive for even prosumers.
It ended up mostly finding uptake in custom apps in the Fortune 500 (and kept it toe-hold in universities) while it lasted as a hardware platform, and then in its OS only incarnation.
- rbanffy 3y agoAnd, yet, every Mac these days runs a direct descendant of NeXT's OS.
- FuriouslyAdrift 3y agoSuch a shame we didn't get BeOS but Jobs and Gassee did NOT get along.
- KerrAvon 3y agoJobs wasn't in charge at that point; Gassee wanted too much money for too little OS. BeOS was missing a lot of features. If BeOS had the ability to output graphics to printers at the time, we'd be in a very different world today.
- pjmlp 3y agoIndeed, first of all Apple might not be around any longer, without the reverse acquisition played by Jobs, who knows how well BeOS inspired Mac OS would turn out. There would be no iPod taking Apple out of red zone. There wouldn't be FOSS devs flocking into Apple hardware as replacement to sponsor Linux OEMs instead. And it would be yet another C++ focused desktop operating system, assuming Apple would survive the transition in this alternative reality.
- CharlesW 3y agoAnd every iOS device!
- mattl 3y agoAnd every HomePod, Apple Watch, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. Plus the later Apple TVs. I think even some of their newer displays have the OS in there too.
- pjmlp 3y agoDue to a serious of steps where Copland failed to deliver, Gasse wanting too much money, NeXT being acquired into what turned out to be a reverse acquisition.
- FuriouslyAdrift 3y agoWe had an entire lab full of NeXT cubes at Purdue that nobody really knew what to use them for. I think they ended up giving them away after a couple of years.