9: Apple's Mac OS Crisis: Who's NeXT? (Part 5)

Just up the road from Apple in Redwood City, Steve Jobs's NeXT is fading and flailing, but has a modern operating system just like the one Apple desperately needs to buy to replace Mac OS. An unlikely person makes an unlikely phone call to save the day.

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Guest Starring:
John Siracusa (relay.fm/people/siracusa)

Links and Show Notes:
Presented by Myke Hurley and Jason Snell. Special guest John Siracusa.

Written by Jason Snell. Thanks to Stephen Hackett, Harry McCracken, Hansen Hsu of the Computer History Museum (computerhistory.org), and Scott Knaster for script assistance.

Audio editing by Myke Hurley and Jim Metzendorf. Video production by Jamie Snell.

Designed in California theme by Christopher Breen (chrisbreen.com).

References:

• MacUser (vintageapple.org/macuser) and Macworld (vintageapple.org/macworld) magazines issues from the period

• Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders (abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31407544…) by Jim Carlton

• On the Firing Line (isbn.nu/9780887309199) by Gil Amelio

• Apple Confidential 2.0 (isbn.nu/9781593270100) by Owen Linzmayer

• Grateful Geek (amzn.to/4zeB7VZ) by Jean-Louis Gassée

• iCon (isbn.nu/9780471787846) by Jeffrey S. Young

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