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What's your definition of successful? Here's mine. NeXT and its technology were acquired by Apple for $429m and 1.5 million Apple shares. This technology was
by Rapzid 12y ago
What's your definition of successful?
Here's mine. NeXT and its technology were acquired by Apple for $429m and 1.5 million Apple shares. This technology was was used in the creation of OSX. The acquisition brought Job's back to Apple and into the CEO chair where he lead the company on the path to becoming the most cash rich in the world.
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- wastedhours 12y agoThe acquisition was successful, but was NeXT as a company successful? (The latter being the point that's being made).
- deciplex 12y agoWell, if the benchmark for success is "write a bullshit app and get acquired by megacorp" that is pretty common these days, then yes they were successful as a company.
- wpietri 12y agoI was a NeXT developer from 0.9 through the acquisition, and I can testify that NeXT was a commercial failure. Many great ideas, and it did well enough in some tiny commercial niches like finance. But if Apple hadn't fucked up its own OS development so thoroughly that they had to buy a replacement, NeXT would have either been out of business or a modest maker of OO development tools. Even without NeXT, Apple could well have brought back Jobs as CEO. I'd say that everything subsequent to Jobs returning to Apple was Jobs's success, not NeXT's.