[ThomPete]

Those folks are missing the point. Next was bought and brought into apples ecosystem thats were the found sucess none of that was part of any plan. Again luck and timing, ifJjobs hadnt been introduced the chances of Next being incorporated into Apple would be much less likely.

[_jal]

That seems like a high bar for 'success' that I'm not sure many share. Lots of startups people deem successful had exits that weren't originally part of the plan. Luck and timing are huge parts of 'success'.

[ThomPete]

And many many times more didn't. You can't just look at the succesful ones thats the whole point. Most fail 9 out of 10.

[_jal]

I don't understand what you're arguing. Of course most startups fail. What does that have to do with how people view NeXT?

[ThomPete]

We are talking about companies who are successful because of their product/services/business. Not companies who get saved from going under by some other company. Next was saved.