The high price was also justified by the success of WebObjects at the time, which was seen as a potential fuel for an IPO for NeXT, even though WebObjects was n

The high price was also justified by the success of WebObjects at the time, which was seen as a potential fuel for an IPO for NeXT, even though WebObjects was not what Apple was buying it for. This Computer History Museum article goes into that angle in detail: https://computerhistory.org/blog/next-steve-jobs-dot-com-ipo-that-never-happened/ https://computerhistory.org/blog/next-steve-jobs-dot-com-ipo...