Comment by bluedino

>> What came out of this deal not only saved Apple and the Mac, but made the iPhone, iPad and more possible as well.

What prevents Apple from making the iPhone and iPad? They could have bought Palm, QNX, did something based on Linux...

What was the key? BSD? Objective-C? I don't see those being that important.

The one thing NeXT did enable them to do was the PowerPC to Intel switch.