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Re: NeXT longevity (was:Re: Apple III?)
- Subject: Re: NeXT longevity (was:Re: Apple III?)
- From: cmcurtin@r-node.io.org (C Matthew Curtin)
- Date: 9 Nov 1993 23:15:54 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Internex Online, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (416 363 3783)
- References: <2ai5ch$llu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <931031.07217.JOENOW@delphi.com> <2b02ue$ss5@nuscc.nus.sg> <2b4b1m$g1d@r-node.io.org> <95151@cup.portal.com>
ScottM@cup.portal.com (Scott - Maxwell) writes:
>I wonder how well NeXT is doing as a software company. It's a nice
>environment to use and program but I hope Jobs falls flat. He deserves it. I
>haven't had much respect for the man since reading "West of Eden." He made
>Woz cry and that ticked me off!
They're making some important deals, and if they are able to land some more
deals like they have been, they could end up actually being profitable one
day. But, NeXT should have gone to hardware-independance software in 1988;
NeXTSTEP could be the MS-Windows of the UNIX world, but Jobs blew it.
BTW, Sculley made Jobs cry after Jobs made Woz cry. I wonder if Markkula
made Sculley cry....
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