❯ Without macOS, Apple would have died: the true story

In 1996, Apple was 90 days from bankruptcy. The company's operating system was a decade behind, Copland had collapsed, and the board was desperate. The acquisition that saved Apple wasn't an acquisition at all — it was a Trojan horse named NeXT that brought Steve Jobs back and quietly replaced the soul of the Mac with Unix. This is the true story of how macOS was born, and why without it, there would be no iPhone, no App Store, and no Apple as we know it.