Sorry, I&#x27;m not questioning that they almost met. I&#x27;m just not seeing what difference it would have made to the Web.<p>NeXT, for all its technical merit, was a repeated commercial failure. It failed as hardware, it failed as an OS for other people&#x27;s hardware, and then it failed as developer tools of other people&#x27;s OSes. The Jobs of 2007, at the helm of a successful company, perhaps could take an obscure technolog7 and get it widely adopted. The Jobs of 1992 had no leverage. The NeXT was full of amazing tech but he couldn&#x27;t get anybody but a few koolaid-drinkers, myself included, to use it.<p>So if he&#x27;d adopted the WWW into the NeXT OS a year or two earlier than everybody else, I think it would have been another cool technology on the NeXT platform that everybody ignored. Mosaic and Navigator made a difference not really for what they were, but because they were available to a large audience of Windows users.<p>If anything, I think the later history of Apple suggests that Jobs&#x27;s talent wasn&#x27;t in cutting-edge technology, but in taking established technology, making it user friendly, and marketing the hell out of it. The iPod wasn&#x27;t the first music player and the iPhone wasn&#x27;t the first smartphone. They were just the first ones built for and marketed to the broad consumer market. There was never really a consumer market for browsers, which is part of what killed Netscape.