[kgwgk]

What do you consider a major corporation? In (fiscal year) 1997 when it merged with Next and started to push objective-c the company had $7bn in revenue (down from $11bn a couple of years before, that’s true) and more than 8000 employees. The next couple of years sales were around $6bn but increased to $8bn in 2000.

[pjmlp]

Right, but had not Steve Jobs "bought" Apple back, and we probably wouldn't be speaking about it anymore.

It would have turned into another Commodore, Atari, SGI, DEC,...