The web was still in its infancy, and Steve Jobs had Apple in his rear view mirror with high hopes that NeXT was the next big thing. Historian or not, this is a great read.
Steve Jobs’ 1996 interview with Red Herring
The web was still in its infancy, and Steve Jobs had Apple in his rear view mirror with high hopes that NeXT was the next big thing. Historian or not, this is a great read.
Oh My God, I absolutely remember buying this issue of Red Herring because of the interview. I can picture the newsstand and rack where I saw the cover. Thanks for the reminder!
Probably a 1995 interview.
“Jobs: WebObjects is in alpha right now, it will go into beta by the end of this year, and we are shipping in production in the first quarter of 1996 – my guess is by February.”
I love how Steve Jobs’ predictions from 1995 are very close to what went down. Not entirely, of course; he radically overestimated how successful NeXT would be with WebObjects. But the Microsoft, Netscape and Sun stuff is really close.
I remember reading this article! I tried explaining to a friend that there wasn’t going to be any money in the browser business, and he didn’t get it.