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The future the USA could have had, sigh: "A brief history of Steve Jobs’ automated factory at NeXT" https://www.cultofmac.com/news/a-brief-history-of-steve-jobs
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The future the USA could have had, sigh: "A brief history of Steve Jobs’ automated factory at NeXT"
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/a-brief-history-of-steve-jobs-automated-factory-at-next-cook-book-leftovers https://www.cultofmac.com/news/a-brief-history-of-steve-jobs...
"Put simply, there was never any necessity for NeXT to have an automated factory. Jobs might have been right that the future of just-in-time manufacturing would involve a heavy dose of automation, but it made no financial sense whatsoever to have a plant staffed with the latest robots for such a low volume business. The problem with NeXT came down to one thing: no-one (relatively speaking) was buying the computers."