Could you say more about how you think that would have happened? I was a NeXT developer at the time, and I&#x27;m having trouble imagining it.<p>At the time, NextStep was a struggling niche OS. Jobs didn&#x27;t get any real power until he returned to the helm of Apple in &#x27;97, and NextStep technology didn&#x27;t hit the mainstream until 2001 with the release of the consumer version of OS X.<p>In contrast, Netscape&#x27;s first product was released in late &#x27;94, and it was popular enough that they IPO&#x27;d in 1995.