&gt; it&#x27;s hard to imagine Jobs supporting software that ran on competing OSes.<p>Perhaps hard to imagine, but they actually did it. OPENSTEP Enterprise allowed you to use the NeXT development tools to build apps for 32-bit Windows platforms. That came toward the end of the NeXT saga, so you could argue it was a move of last resort. But it clearly wasn&#x27;t out of the question.