[HN Gopher] Internal NeXT video by Steve Jobs (1991)
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       Internal NeXT video by Steve Jobs (1991)
        
       Author : peppertree
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2024-06-03 19:26 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | fuersty wrote:
       | Pretty wild 3 years in to actually selling NeXT Cubes and Mr.
       | Jobs flat out says "We've had historically a very hard time
       | figuring who our customer was".
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       | I think that's a very fair and accurate assessment, but
       | surprising they let it go so far out of control. They really
       | started out going for the academic market for years, but there
       | really wasn't much demand there.
        
         | peppertree wrote:
         | In the video jobs mentioned he wanted to sell 50,000 units in
         | 1992. The actual numbers were 20,000 units in 1992 and 50,000
         | in 1993. This just reminded me of Tesla ramp up. Musk was right
         | about volume but too optimistic on timing.
        
         | OnlyMortal wrote:
         | In our case it was display postscript.
         | 
         | We wrote a WYSIWYG editor for Yellow Pages (Gouden Gids in NL).
         | It was also used for the Golden Pages in Ireland, the Puerto
         | Rico YP, the YP for Norway, the YP in SA and the NTT one in
         | Japan.
         | 
         | Understandably for the time, people were blown away by it.
        
       | pjmlp wrote:
       | The video is also a great example of Steve Jobs opinion on
       | traditional UNIX systems, and why although the compatibility was
       | relevant for NeXTSTEP and OS X, that was never the main
       | development story.
        
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