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Imagine if Jobs had gone to M$.

He would have been almost immediately fired for insubordination.

Jobs needed the wilderness years.

Jobs getting fired was the best thing that could have happened to him and Apple.

No, the failures at NeXT weren’t due to a lack of money or personnel. He took the people he wanted to take (and who were willing to come with him).

Apple back then was not a trillion dollar corporation.

Microsoft now is.