The Story of Cocoa
Once upon a time, two guys named Steve started a company called Apple Computer in their garage. The company grew rapidly, so they hired an experienced executive named John Sculley to be its CEO. After a few conflicts, John Sculley moved Steve Jobs to a position where he had no control over the company. Steve Jobs left to form another computer company, NeXT Computer.
NeXT hired a small team of brilliant engineers. This small team developed a computer, an operating system, a printer, a factory, and a set of development tools. Each piece was years ahead of competing technologies. Unfortunately, the computer and the printer were commercial failures. In 1993, the factory closed, and NeXT Computer, Inc. became NeXT ...
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