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Yeah, but Apple didn’t care about WebObjects; it needed an operating system. And OpenStep on PC hardware was slow, crashy, unpolished, and generally much less pleasant to use than the fastest Macs at the time. Apple bought it because it had a fully working graphics architecture (BeOS couldn’t even print!), and vastly overpaid for it because Gil Amelio was an idiot.

Irony: the graphics architecture had to be fully rewritten from scratch for Mac OS X because Adobe didn’t want to support Display PostScript anymore. Have I mentioned that Gil Amelio was an idiot?



Do you remember how unstable the original Mac OS was? I remember working with a guy doing web development work on his circa-1996 PowerPC Mac. It would crash at least daily, resulting in a reboot. Perhaps it was Netscape's fault.


This is true and it was a joke at the time.

"The best thing about using a Mac is that you can rely that something in your life is going to go down on you every single day."


Whoa! Nowadays, you'd get banned from social media for a joke like that.


One of the things I particularly like about the joke is that while it's sexual, it's not specific to any sexuality. :-)


> Yeah, but Apple didn’t care about WebObjects; it needed an operating system.

I never said Apple bought NeXT for WebObjects. I said that NeXT had value outside of the deal in the marketplace because WebOjects was starting to get traction.




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