[mtzaldo]

close the world, open the next

[dane-pgp]

It's perhaps worth noting here that the tagline is actually stylised as:

"Close the world, open the nExt."[0]

with the capitalisation presumably being a reference to the company NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs.[1]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/taglines

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT

[kitsunesoba]

Seems likely, with how many other Apple-adjacent references are in the series (including Copland among another things).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)

[Kim_Bruning]

Here's a list of all the references that people found at the time (ish)

https://www.cjas.org/~leng/apple-lain.htm