[asveikau]

It also probably has to do with personalities, and who did what. NeXT was the Jobs thing. So Jobs came back, and they based things on NeXT.

[pjmlp]

While killing almost everything else.

The video of the audience heat he is taking for those decisions and how he goes justifying his decisions is worth watching for anyone that needs to go through something similar.

[perardi]

Though he did notably compromise on Carbon. The early plan was Cocoa/App Kit all the way, which meant a fundamental rewrite of all the important applications, namely Adobe and Microsoft stuff.

Which would not have flown.

[pjmlp]

Sean Parent was key on that whole process, given his role at Adobe and Apple, hear his interviews here,

https://adspthepodcast.com/

[vintagedave]

Do you have a link to that video?

[mrpippy]

https://archive.org/details/wwdc-1997-fireside-chat-steve-jo...