The market prefers the best product *as defined by customers*. This can mean "features" that are important to customers (like application compatibility) or cost (if something costs more than the value you'll derive from it, you won't buy it). By this means, the market provides a range of products that fit customers' individual needs and desires. Depending on how closely *your* needs and desires track to the population at large determines how satisfied you'll be with available products.
Beefy desktops are even becoming an irrelevant niche. There are now very steep diminishing returns in getting the very latest hardware. When you take into account the cost of noticeable improvement as well as how quickly the hardware drops in price over time, there's just no business sense in spending more than a consumer would for a PC.
The nonacceptance of NeXT Computers is a clear sign that the MARKET dosen´t prefer the best product. It prefers the ESTABLISHED product. Like evolution markets hate to begin from scratch with a better solution. They like to change NOT and make profit forever with only minimal innovation. Thank Steve that he got back to apple and gave us at least OS X. But Openstep 5 would have been even better.
Next PC was Tandy 1000x something. Micro-step more productive. Then, due to a great sacrifice by my mom, the next PC was a MacII, in late 1987, with NEC MultitSync Monitor, and LED Digital-Edge Laser Printer, LS-890, I think.
Thank you, Steven Jobs.
\\Billy Gates: You deserve the world's computer-suckers who've dumped their bank accounts on your stupid ideas about computing! Go drown in your ill-gotten sucker wealth, my neighbor in Redmon!
I'm thinking what killed NeXT was getting in the workstation market just before the combo of Free Unices and More's Law killed the entire market. Sun's workstation business died too, when's the last time you bought a sparcstation. But luckily NeXT managed to survive by consuming Apple from the inside out. After all, my Intel Mac has more in common with NeXT than it does with any Apple products from before Jobs' return.
Steve's presentation skills really are amazing. Doesn't matter if he is in front of a whiteboard, of a massive keynote presentation being projected. The guy is incredible in his delivery.
People remember Einstein for his theory, and Beethoven for his brilliance. I don't read anything in history books about how terrible their fashion sense was. I just notice people mentioning profound effect on history. Then there are those who dress like a million bucks but their talents are only worth 2 nickles.