Imwe yenhau dzinonyanya kutaurwa munhoroondo yaSteve Jobs 'Apple hapana mubvunzo paakadzingwa basa kana, kuzviisa mune imwe nzira yakapfava, akakokwa kusiya kambani yake. Panguva iyoyo uye pazera ramakore makumi matatu, akafunga kuenderera nebasa rake mubhizimusi remakomputa. kugadzira kambani NeXT Computer Inc. Kune iyi kambani nyowani yakagadzirwa neMabasa akaunza vanomwe veavo vaimbove vashandi kuApple: Bud Tribble, George Crow, Rich Page, Susan Barnes, Susan Kare naDan'l Lewin.
NeXt yakavhurwa muna 1988 iyo: Iyo Cube, sikweya komputa sezvinoita zita rayo uye kuti kunyangwe chiri chokwadi kuti haina kuwana huwandu hukuru hwekutengesa, yaizobata Jobs kudzokera kuApple nekuda kweiyo inoshanda system inonzi NeXTSTEP. Muna 1993 uye nepo kutengesa "kwecube" kwanga kusiri kwakanakisa kana kutarisirwa, NEXT yakatora mukana wekuzvipira kune software uye nekuvandudza mashandiro anotangwa pakombuta, Nyaya yaNEXT yakaguma munguva yechando ya1996 apo Apple Computer yakazivisa kutenga kwayo kwe $ 429 mamirioni kuitira kuti uvandudze mashandiro eMacintosh makomputa nekuwedzera NeXt software.
Iyi ndiyo yakazara vhidhiyo vhidhiyo yeNEXT komputa mharidzo muna 1988. Isu takatoyambira kuti iyi hurukuro refu uye kana usinga nyanye kuona mharidzo refu, iyi inogona kutokutakura zvishoma:
Steve Jobs pasina mubvunzo aive shasha yekushambadza uye muvhidhiyo iyi iwe unogona kuona kuti anotungamira sei chiitiko chehurukuro. Zvinonzwisisika ndezvekutengesa chigadzirwa uye vazhinji vedu vanoziva nezve hunyanzvi hweMabasa mune izvi.