woz's idiot, blue jeans/designer t-shirt wearin' partner coming back without a REAL COMPUTER GUY (read:the woz, obviously [] ]'> ) to keep said idiot in line.

Click to expand...

There were plenty of real computer guys at NeXT, and he brought them all with him.

(miserable failure) NeXT technology

Click to expand...

Err, beg to differ. From a market penetration point of view, certainly, but as technology? NeXTSTEP was streets ahead of anything else on the market, especially as a development environment. And even the market failure could be partly blamed on the non-compete contract Jobs had to sign when leaving Apple.

IMHO, integrating NeXTSTEP is what saved Apple in the long run. The iMac was a reprieve from immediate doom, but porting the best available Unix development environment is what saved the platform. A cool Unix dev system attracts the alpha geeks, the alpha geeks build the coolest software, the cool software attracts the customers.

I don't know if you know this, but OS X is kind of awesome.

NON-COMPUTER $-Cows as iPods, iTunes, and most recently iPhones.

Click to expand...

Sorry - how is an iPhone or an iPod Touch not a real computer?