Bunsen
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There were plenty of real computer guys at NeXT, and he brought them all with him.woz's idiot, blue jeans/designer t-shirt wearin' partner coming back without a REAL COMPUTER GUY (read:the woz, obviously [] ]'> ) to keep said idiot in line.
Err, beg to differ. From a market penetration point of view, certainly, but as technology? NeXTSTEP was streets ahead of anything else on the market, especially as a development environment. And even the market failure could be partly blamed on the non-compete contract Jobs had to sign when leaving Apple.(miserable failure) NeXT technology
IMHO, integrating NeXTSTEP is what saved Apple in the long run. The iMac was a reprieve from immediate doom, but porting the best available Unix development environment is what saved the platform. A cool Unix dev system attracts the alpha geeks, the alpha geeks build the coolest software, the cool software attracts the customers.
I don't know if you know this, but OS X is kind of awesome.
Sorry - how is an iPhone or an iPod Touch not a real computer?NON-COMPUTER $-Cows as iPods, iTunes, and most recently iPhones.