![]() He then also formed his own computer company with the help of another ex-Apple employee, Steve Sakoman. In 1990, Jean-Louis Gassée, who replaced Jobs in Apple as the head of Macintosh development, was also fired from the company. However, Jobs’ path wasn’t unique, and the history of computing since then could’ve gone a whole lot different. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as CEO once again. You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. It's historically interesting, but kind of awful. I only ran Next/OpenStep way after the fact, and it never had that magic. I am in the "Be's tech was at least as good as NeXT's and more suitable at the time Apple gave up on their internal processes and bought themselves a successor OS" camp on the whole Apple thing. Haiku has improved on end-of-the-line BeOS, especially with the slick way they've implemented packages in the last few years, but the hardware support makes it not a suitable daily driver. ![]() Article note: BeOS really was a glorious thing, doing the multiple media playback while remaining responsive on a Pentium MMX parlor trick in the late 90s was always a little mind-blowing.
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