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Editor says, what if Apple had purchased their next generation operating system from Be instead of NeXTSTEP? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the August 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 2008, the animated movie Iron Man CG was released on the twelfth anniversary of Steve Jobs' merger of NeXTSTEP and Pixar.
Iron Man CGHaving abandoned the Copland Project, the rapid development of the next generation new operating system, the Mac OS X required the in-sourcing of new technology, and the two stand-out candidates appeared to be BeOS or NeXTSTEP. Inevitably, a bidding war developed between the two rival companies which were both run by former Apple executives Jean-Louis Gassée and Steve Jobs. Arguing that "A man in the desert doesn't bargain on the price of water", Gassée reluctantly sold Be Inc. for $200 million (he wanted $275 million) after discovering that his buyer Apple Computer was on the verge of striking an alternative deal with NeXTSTEP. But as the former head of advanced product development and worldwide marketing, his second stint at Apple reinforced his reputation as an expert in spending fortunes on interesting but unmarketable ideas.
Denied his own second career stint, Jobs decided to combine the resources of his two visionary companies around the single focus of entertainment. And the signature piece "What Are You Building, Stark?" was surely nothing but a satire of Job's career prior to his dismissal from Apple.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Hollywood Source: History World Labels: Iron Man, Apple, Be, Steve Jobs, Macintosh. Editor says, in reality Apple acquired NeXT for $425 million. In authoring this article, re-purposed content from Below Holllywood and Mac Talk What web sites. The latter conceives this non-existent CG movie.
~ Interesting. lots of "almosts" in that business, but I think that Jobs would have stayed out of the content -- all he wanted was "insanely great."
~ Jobs liked to dabble in things that interested him, and I think he would have been interested in an Iron Man movie...
~ An animated "Iron Man"? Say it ain't so, Joe . . . and fortunately, it wasn't.
~ Would it cause an explosion of other animated superhero films? Mark Hamil could be back on the job for Joker forever.
~ Would make an awesome profile pic lol
~ With modern animation, superhero films would be dead easy to do, and you woudn't need to deal with stroppy actors.
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