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Member since:2005-11-16
Apple didn't force NeXT to pursue the education market, I think that was always NeXT's intention. From the comments at the start of the second video, it looks like the legal issues with Apple occurred after that first video was shot.
What the deal with Apple supposedly did was force NeXT to release more expensive computers than they originally intended. Ultimately making them uncompetitive in the education market, despite the obvious technological advantages of NeXT hardware and software.
Whether NeXT would have been more successful without that constraint is impossible to say. The growing domination of the IBM compatible was perhaps a bigger problem than the pricing. After all, Amiga, Acorn and Atari computers were reasonably priced and had clear advantages over the IBM PC, such as superior graphics and multimedia capabilities, yet they still failed in the end.
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That is what I had heard before too. However in the video he says that the company is just 90 days old, and he has already stated that the entire company focus is the edu market. I'm wondering how much of that "Apple forced us to" is revisionist history.