The Long, Extraordinary Career of Steve Jobs

What's NeXT
Jobs' departure from Apple seemed only to inflame his desire to remold the world of personal computing. His next venture, NeXT Computer, took the Apple ideal one step further and featured a sleek magnesium cube with a greatly enhanced graphical interface, built-in Ethernet port and many other technical advancements. Though the machine was priced too high to break into the mainstream market, it had a tremendous influence over the next generation of computing.

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