It was a really beautiful, functional, svelte & fast OS.

IMHO, Apple made the right decision with Next because of Jobs. I’d sure like to see the results of the alternate timeline!

I still feel like Be could be great for phones/mobile, maybe VR. (Just as it was so foundationally low latency)

(Note I am aware of Haiku, etc. I’m using “Be” to mean something from its linage)

Side note - Jean-Louis Gassée, founder(?) of Be is very insightful. He writes some excellent short form tech world analysis at http://mondaynote.com/