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Article: Steve Jobs, NeXT, and the Mac OS. (Apple's acquisition of NeXT Software) (State of the Mac) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Mac Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Drama, Questions, and Tentative Answers on Apple's New OS
You can't say Apple isn't an interesting company. Apple's history is more like a soap opera than a corporate biography. In the previous episode viewers were anxiously awaiting the acquisition of Be so that Apple could lay claim to a new operating system t o replace the recently failed Copland OS. Be is the brainchild of Jean-Louis Gassee, the onetime Apple bad boy who filled the personality vacuum created by Steve Jobs when he left the company in 1985. But at the eleventh hour, none other than Steve Jobs h imself returned to Apple, and with him came Next, which will provide the Mac's new operating system and ...
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Article: Apple will embrace third-party iPhone software, but how? ...
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...Byline: John Cox Apple's Steve Jobs announced today on the company's Web site that he wants native ... carrier authorized to carry it: AT&T. Apple has introduced new OS versions with changes specifically designed to foil the SIM attackers ...
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