you are dead wrong. interesting remarks have been posted in spite of your ill conceived remarks. your need for attention is an indication of a need for medical intervention.
i promised myself i would go against your next posted trade and didnt do it. Obviously, i wish i had done so. your track record is hysterical. nicely done once again RDT
Dayum, you honestly couldn't make this up. RDT says go short, nails the lows, and the stock explodes $30 per share to new all-time highs within 24 hours. ROFL at this one
If you asked the investors in Netscape and NeXT they'll tell you they don't give a flying frack about who gets credit for inventing something. All they care about is alpha on their capital.
NeXT investors got >$400MM and 1.5MM shares of apple. Current valuation approaching $1B. Do you have a point? Nextstep -> OSX. Apple hadn't seen platform success until the integration of unix.
So, you know for a fact that 1) every investor in NeXT was around for the buyout and 2) didn't dump their stock when AAPL dropped over 50% in the year after the buyout? Hadn't seen platform success before OSX? So, the AppleII and the Macintosh were both "marginal," is that it? Get a grip...
About as sure as you are that every investor took the money and ran at the closing of the deal. Did you graduate middle school? Serious question.
Ah, dropping down into personal attack mode, are we? Now, that is pathetic... Point is, no one knows how what happened to the NeXT investors, bringing it up was pointless. There's no getting around the fact that the NeXT is to OSX just as much as the Lisa was to the Macintosh. Sure, you can point to technology developed in each that went into the later, commercially successful platforms. But, it will never change the fact that both the NeXT and Lisa were flat out commercial failures.