I can imagine an alternate universe where Jobs has a &quot;Xerox&quot; moment and immediately pivots NeXT&#x27;s software efforts to developing a cross-platform graphical browser.<p>The &quot;cross-platform&quot; part is the most optimistic, to be sure. But if Jobs believed that NeXT&#x27;s real value was the software (as OS X, and especially iOS, bear out), then you can imagine a strategy that used a web browser as a Trojan Horse for a platform that could overthrow the currently dominant Windows monopoly. That was basically Netscape&#x27;s strategy a few years later, after all.