rhapsody was the name given to apple computer's next-generation operating system. apple got the rhapsody operating system when they bought next inc. from steve jobs for $425 million. the same year apple released rhapsody to software developers so they could create versions of their software for the next release of the apple operating system. but a key software vendor, adobe systems, did not like apple's plan for the new os. without adobe supporting them apple decided not to go ahead with rhapsody. rhapsody was replaced by os x, scheduled for 1999.