Steve Jobs after being fired from Applu in 1985, founded the company NeXT Computer with a capital of $7 million. A year later, however, Jobs did not have enough funds, and the company was threatened with bankruptcy, but afteronec billionaire Ross Perot decided to invest in the company. The first workstation was released in 1990, but its price was quite discouraging, starting at $9. Although the device was NeXT The workstation, which was relatively advanced from a technological point of view and boasted primarily an object-oriented system, was rejected due to its high price.
In 1990, the second generation debuted NeXTcube boasting a multimedia email system NeXTMail, through which the device could share media (images, voice recording, graphics, and video) via email.
Jobs was known for his dedication to perfect design, as evidenced by the fact that he designed a magnesium case for the NeXTbucket. ProHowever, since only 50 thousand units were sold, he had to NeXT on February 9, 1993, to stop manufacturing computers and begin concentrating exclusively on software development NeXTSTEP for the Intel platform.
The company also made mass layoffs, and out of 500 employeesancA total of 330 employees were laid off.ancs, in an event known as BlackTuesdayIt was quite cruel that the employeesancThey learned about their fate from the company radio.
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Company NeXT it lost $1992 million in 40. In 1994, it turned out that stopping making computers and focusing only on software was the perfect move for the company, as it turned a profit of $1994 million in 1,03 for the first time.
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