The NeXT deal made perfect sense. Copland, Apple's internal effort at making a next-generation OS, had failed, and they needed to acquire a pre-baked operating

The NeXT deal made perfect sense. Copland, Apple's internal effort at making a next-generation OS, had failed, and they needed to acquire a pre-baked operating system. Speculation at the time had them acquiring BeOS, but they went with NeXT instead, and the rest is history.