Apple's big mistake

Courtesy Topix - Unix  Sun, 08/24/2008 - 21:41

So, Apple computer did the wrong thing. On December 20 1997, Apple announced that it would spend $400 million to purchase Steve Jobs' company Next Software.


 

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