After he left Apple, he founded NeXT and tried to go the hardware-software route again, until he had to sell the hardware unit to Canon and the software to, yes, Apple.
The software part of NeXT was purchased for over $4,000,000.
mnli hypothesis: The software part of NeXT was purchased for over $4,000,000. premise: After he left Apple, he founded NeXT and tried to go the hardware-software route again, until he had to sell the hardware unit to Canon and the software to, yes, Apple.