History of NeXT 

Steve pulled a “Michael scott paper company”

In short: If there was no NeXT, there is no Pixar, there is no World Wide Web (at least as it's known now), no OS X, no iMac, basically no second coming of Apple in the late 90s.

Great video. Just a couple more points. If Apple with Jobs would have built and released the NeXT computer as Apple’s next Mac in 1989 or slightly earlier, and found a way to absorb that cost to reasonable price points ($1000 units for consumer, education and business, to $3000 and $6000 units for workstation customers), I believe there’s a chance Microsoft doesn’t survive to make Windows NT or maybe Windows ‘95. That’s how advanced NeXTStep was and still is. It was OS X in the late ‘80s. Even today nobody makes a UNIX OS with a hybrid micro kernel, that has a postscript or PDF windowing kernel. Those two genius features of NeXTStep are what allowed it to port to multiple CPU architectures so easily as to be worth it, (68000, Power, Intel, ARM, SPARC, etc), and allowed it to scale the GUI from an iPod to iPhone iOS, Watch OS, TV OS, etc etc. NeXT could already do this back then because of the choices they made. And even after 30 years, because of its kernel design it can continue to morph to meet the demands of our time. Unless something supplants UNIX (doubtful anytime soon), macOS could go on for a very long time and remain the best OS on the planet. Btw, I had a BeBox running BeOS on two 603 PowerPCs and it wasn’t a sketchy OS. It had serious potential. Only thing odd about it is that is was so young there were no apps for it. Was it built with the knowledge Apple would need it someday? Maybe. But that doesn’t make it sketchy. It makes Jobs a much better pitch man than Gassée.

That Logo is still jucy as hell, even 20 years later.

It's a shame NeXT wasn't successful, but without it, there would be no macOS, iOS, watchOS, or tvOS. While working at an AT&T Wireless call center in the late 90s, I worked with a variant of the NeXT OS called OpenStep. When Mac OS X was released as a beta in Sept. 2000, I was already familiar with it due to my use of OpenStep.

I remember reading about this company several years ago. It was impressive to see how Jobs built this company as opposed to how Apple’s corporate structure was built. Good on Steve for taking care of his people. (:

10:46 I will see you NeXT time

That's why some parts of the Classes/Frameworks in macOS/iOS is prefixed with NS for NextSTEP. Most of these however are deprecated but is still part of AppKit and Cocoa up to this day: NSWindow, NSCursor, NSObject, NSArray etc. So much of the core foundations of macOS (and iOS) were borrowed from NeXTSTEP: The unix foundation, Interface Builder, the .app extension (bundles), screen grabber, WYSIWYG etc. The reason why macOS lasted for so long is because of the solid foundation of NeXTSTEP. It really was ahead of it's time ( I think steve jobs said in a keynote that it would last for the next decade) The first website was even hosted/created on Next by a guy at CERN and DOOM was also created on next (And I think pixar also used it in the early days or maybe those were SGI computers idk)

Apple is NeXT. The Apple prior to 1996 is gone. Seriously.

Big Big Big thumbs up , super nice video 😃. Love your videos. Have a great Sunday . Cheers from Denmark

Your channel is going to get huge. Thanks for the amazing videos.

1MB of RAM and my PC is Maxing 64GB of RAM with intention to expand. We sure came from a long way

Even though this was the “third place winner” of the votes, I really like learning more about NeXT, I used to play with the software years ago!

If Apple and NeXT did not merge, Apple could have been gone now while NeXT's OS may have been running on most desktop computers instead of Windows.

I still have a NeXT workstation... complete matching system, it's simply a work of art!

NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business use. The company was founded by Apple Computer co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs after he was forcibly removed from Apple in 1985. NeXT introduced its first product, the NeXT Computer, in 1988, followed by the smaller NeXTcube and NeXTstation in 1990. These computers had relatively limited sales, with only about 50,000 units shipped in total. Nevertheless, their object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces were trendsetters of computer innovation, and highly influential.

5:38 It sounds like if NeXT made the GameCube and the PlayStation

Missed the biggest part about NeXT the web browser and Web server was built on NeXTSTEP platform

HISTORY OF POWERPC

252 views 56 likes 1 dislike (I bet that person would be John Scully)

very few people could be kicked from his own company and after, found a new one successfully sell that company to the previous get back as CEO

I also love how they continued the Esslinger Design that Apple did not appreciate.

Love your channel!! Really good information!!

damn i really want some vintage next machines. they really nailed the simple yet minimalistic design.

OpenStep doesn't run on "Windows systems", I think you're thinking of the term "wintel", and you probably mean x86. Also, BeOS isn't a "sketchy Mac OS knock-off", it's a proprietary UNIX-like OS built ground-up for media performance, and it screamed on hundred-something MHz Pentiums back in the day. If anything, *Windows* was a Mac OS knock-off. I can has accuracy kthx.

Really appreciate the detailed research put behind the video and the narration. However, shuffling the background music once in a while to something different wouldn't hurt!

Wow beautiful content loved it Are there any next companies awesome products

Thank you for the very video =D

There was absolutely nothing “sketchy” about BeOS. Have you ever used it? There was a lot to like about it. I ran it on my PoweeComputing Mac clone. A lot of us thought it would have made a great basis for Mac OS. But NeXTSTEP was a better choice. Another very large company that ran WebObjects was the US Postal Service. Wish they still were.

I followed NeXT closely back in the day. They were doing such interesting stuff, though I despaired of ever being to own one of their machines. I just hoped to get to see one. As Apple floundered with the chronically delayed Copland and then floated the idea of buying BeOS I became concerned. But then they acquired NeXT and I felt a LOT better about their future. Oh yeah, and they get Steve Jobs back! That nails it. When Windows 95 came out everyone said it made Windows "more Mac-like." No. It really didn't. It made Windows more NeXT-like. Now we both run NeXT-like window managers.

Great video however in my research I have found that Jobs was not fired from Apple, he resigned a few months after the board stripped him of his position as head of the Macintosh organization.

That’s crazy when you think about it !

The NeXT Mac is gonna be HuGE cuz it’s gonna resemble the 90’s “welcome to the tiny screens.”

There is no "once again" when it comes to Steve serving as CEO of Apple. He only ever served in that role once. Not diminishing him at all. But he was never the CEO until after his return to the companie.

Steve Jobs was way ahead of the curve and many others would follow in his footsteps and very successfully create companies that will be acquired by larger companies.

Thank U, neXT

3M as in the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company?

great introduction video to fill the gap between Steve Jobs left and come back to Apple during 85 to 97

You should do the History of Apples Ecosystems.

Here is a little more on exactly how Apple came to acquire Next. Back in the 1988, shortly after the release of Mac OS System 6, a group of Apple programers started the Pink project to set about exploring ideas for a radically new version Mac OS that could eventually replace the current Mac OS design. Meanwhile, they also started work on Mac OS System 7 as part of the Blue project, which saw release in 1991. They worked up some ideas of what such an OS would look like into a crude demo. Meanwhile, IBM had come to Apple looking for a computer manufacturer to use their Power CPU architecture. Apple was interested by only if Motorola could be allowed to produce Power CPU’s too so they wouldn’t be reliant on only one chi producer. This leads to a partnership called AIM (Apple, IBM, & Motorola) in which the Power architecture from IBM was modified to more slightly more like Moto’s 88100 processor technology and they rename it PowerPC. Meanwhile IBM saw then demo of the Pink project OS and expressed interest in helping develop it for the PowerPC architecture and so they decided to form a partnership with Apple to turn these ideas into OS and this became Taligent, a separate company owned by Apple and IBM that would be the developer of this OS. While Taligent was being developed, the Blue project developers release a PPC version of System 7. Apple then began to transition away from the 78000 line of processors from Motorola with initially the PPC being users only on the higher-end Macs due to cost while 68k proccesors remained in the lower end Macs (The 68040 was the last 68000 series CPU ever used in a Mac and the 68060 was the last 68k processor Moto ever produced but was never used by Apple). Unfortunately for Taligent, cultural differences led to the partnership between Apple and IBM to collapse without the Taligent OS ever coming to fruition as originally envisioned. IBM did latter decide to release a scaled down version of Taligent on the own only to see it flop (they would later integrated some of it’s technology into other products of theirs). Meanwhile back at Apple, with Taligent floundering as the poential successor to System 7, Apple decided work on a successor to System 7 in house that would become known as the Copeland project. One of the main goals of Copeland was to make an OS that solved the issue of System 7 not supporting protected memory and preemptive multitasking while at the same time not breaking backwards compatibility with System 7 comparable apps. In addition they planned to include a whole host of new features that would revolutionize the Mac OS. Unfortunately, Copeland faltered due to two major factors, the plan to create a protected memory and preemptive multi-tasking while maintaining backwards compatibility turned out to be more difficult then first envisioned, and the development team was allowed to just add two mean panned features (feature creep). They were never able to release a stable version of Copeland and the project dragged on past original release projections. Macworld featured a preview of Copeland at the time the was impressive but turned out to be a bit too much for Apple to chew. While Copeland development was dragging, Apple decide to update System 7 with some interim features additions to buy Apple some time. Eventually it was realized that the Copeland project wasn’t getting anywhere so they had to decide what their next best option might be. Three options where presented to management, one was to go with Microsoft Windows and the other was to buy a OS from another company with BeOS and Next being to suggested candidates. Apple management quickly dismissed the licensing Windows idea as the Mac’s loyal fan base would have rebelled given their overall dislike of Microsoft at the time. When BeOS was made an offered for their OS, Be inc wanted more then Apple was prepared to pay at the time so they went to Jobs at Next and ultimately payed him more then what they were prepared to pay Be inc to for BeOS. Meanwhile, which Copeland now officially dead, Apple decided to take some features from Copeland and integrated them into System 7. It was originally to be released as System 7.8 but before that could happen, Jobs (as now interim CEO) change name to Mac OS 8 (partly as a means to kill off the Mac clone program because clone makers only had a license for System 7). This lead to a dual track process where one team within Apple comprised in NextStep/OpenStep developers from Next started work on what would become Mac OS X as part of the Rhapsody Project. While the Blue team developing OS 7 was set about advancing the Classic OS as much as possible until OS X was ready. This lead to Mac OS 8 (formally System 7.8), Mac OS 8.5, and finally Mac OS 9, which all had some pretty impressive improvements and new features despite still suffering from no protected memory (thus a system error typically led to the whole system crashing requiring a reboot) or preemptive multitasking.

Thanks for this

Do Pixar next. Steve jobs was also the founder of Pixar

1 megabyte of ram,,, how things have changed

whos watching this on their NeXT computer?

Great video, but it pains me that you call BeOS a sketchy MacOS knock-off. :( Yeah some of its elements resembled the original MacOS greatly, but it was also groundbreaking for its time. Sadly due to them being late to the OS party basically sealed their fate, and the concept currently "lives" on in its open-source clone, Haiku, which is basically languishing due to slow development and lack of manpower.

Something you forgot to mention - the current incarnation of OpenSTEP is Cocoa, the framework used to make Apple apps

Just started to watch and like

*_Ohh man I miss this guy so much :-(_*

nice video

Have the book, will read soon.

See you NeXT time! 😉👌

BeOS a sketchy MacOS (Classic) knock-off? What an uneducated statement!

I certainly don't like how you glossed over BeOS, but that's not shocking I guess. It would be a good topic since it was a such a part of Apple history and as a former developer I find it a bit sad it's over looked like this.

can you do a history of the mac lc line?

ashton kutcher really looked like Steve jobs from before...played the role well in movie

Thanks Man!

I just got an MJD ad!

Thankfully Steve Jobs got back to apple R.I.P you wrote history

That computer has aged pretty well I think. Especially the monitor stand design. It looks sleek and futuristic. Other computers that came after that time period were bulky in the stand department. Because of this, they used the same design with the imac back in 2010 or so.

Yes!

If no Next, there would be no Apple Explained. ;)

Apple: You're fired. Jobs: HOLD MY NEXT!

No need to throw shade at BeOS. It was super cool and pioneered a lot of stuff in its own right.

Damn I never even heard of such a thing as next!

He loves his turtleneck

To be fair, Jobs wasn't out and out fired (in the same way of being called into a meeting with a boss and dismissed). Rather Scully issued an ultimatum to say to the rest of the board "It's me or steve, I cannot work with this man for another moment longer. Either he goes, or I go." and ultimately they all sided with Scully. Steve forced the board's hand by basically being a brat. But again, Scully and almost the entire board knew fuck all about computer and tech products so were nothing more than managers in the straightest sense.

Michael Fassbender : I will you gonna have to say, we don't have an OS Journalist : An operating system?

This is kind of like the Michael Scott Paper Company of it's time

I am on RU-vid every day and never see the damn pole.

You need more subs, love from London,

9:06 Great pun!

Yay its here!

Is the Greg who narrates these videos the Lofty Pursuits guy?

Next do history of apples “gates” as in like bend gate and antenna gate and stuff like that

Last place in the poll... why have the poll if you're going to ignore the results?

Steve wasn’t forced out of Apple. He planned to go out because he was forced out of the Macintosh team. It’s written in the Walter Isaacson book.

my granny bought it when it was relased so now i have one now in my home

Pretty good video, but I can't help but nitpick a little. Neither the iPhone nor iPad had anything to do with saving Apple from bankruptcy. The iMac did that back in 1998. Apple's pivot to consumer electronics with the iPod coupled with the industry power they collected to themselves with the iTunes Music Store firmly established them as a market leader in the entertainment industry. By the time iPhone rolled out, Apple was a behemoth and dropped "Computer" from their name.

Steve Jobs will be so missed 😢

It proves that Steve Jobs will to change the world is unbeatable!.

iPod touch currently supports ios12

History of macintosh

I wonder wtf he’s going to do when explains everything there is to about Apple.

The Next Cube was actually the computer John Carmack used to make DOOM.

Pop quiz: How many times was the word next said?

I thought Jobs was finished in 1996 and was out of ideas. I didn't know he would have a second coming that would dwarf everything he did before.

One comment. You said that the NeXT slab ran a Motorola 68040 at 25Mhz which smoked the Mac Classic. Well, yeah. The Classic was essentially a re-issue of the original 1984 Mac or Mac Plus and ran a 68000 at 8Mhz. That CPU was almost 10 years old by then. Apple’s Quadra line used the 68040 series CPUs and they were fast too. I LOVED my Quadra 650 (68040 at 33Mhz). It was fast for that time. But NeXT’s UNiX-like OS was light years ahead of System 6 and 7, and made Windows look like something coded by a 5 year old.

Awesome

@8:48: "COP-land" as in "cop", not "cope-land" as in "to cope". For that was what 'classic macos' was missing: memory protection, I/O protection and resource protection of multiple processes running on the same machine. (NeXT was built on UNIX, so it had this from version 1.)

BeOS was no more a knockoff of MacOS any more than the Mac itself was an "original" idea of Jobs and CrApple™. BeOS was the logical next step in the development of computer hardware and computer operating systems, but just as happened with the Commodore Amiga, the computer industry, (and general public), were already locked-in to the same dead-end path that both currently find themselves on. BeOS + the "BeBox" was the most advanced person computer in existance at the time, capable of doing things other computers could only dream of. Had BeOS been successful the computer world would have most likely leap-frogged a decade or more past where technology is today.

NeXT now: Unknown people purchased NeXT and changed the name into NZXT. The company then is a video graphic card factory.

History of apple without Jobs in 90s

Does NeXT still exist?

THE GREATEST PERSON IN THE HUMAN HISTORY WHO IS THIS?OF COURSE STEVE JOBS

keep fighting till you win or you die.

So... whats NeXT?

Winner. Very funny

11:37 For the NEXT video, lol

History of the eMaccccccc?

Im living with a iphone 4 in 2018 you should be amazed