Steve Jobs tells our customer what he thinks of their industry

It’s 1996. Steve Jobs was still at NeXT with the merger with Apple still a few months away. I was a Systems Engineer for NeXT, working alongside a Sales Executive, and our little team covered customers in a part of the East Region. We brought a customer out to Redwood City for a meeting. They asked Steve what he thought of their industry. And he sure told them. NeXT's headquarters in Redwood City, California. By Coolcaesar - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link we’re selling WebObjects to big companies NeXT was mostly selling WebObjects in those days, which was a tool that you’d run on a server to help you build web apps five to ten times faster, as we all liked to say. Seriously, WebObjects was a great product, that cost $50,000 per server at one point, and I remember being in the room post-Apple-merger when Steve announced that the price was dropping to $699 (and eventually to $0.) Our NeXT sales guys, whose recent careers had been built on selling one or two copies of the $50,000 version a…