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Comment on NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened

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If you've read the Steve Jobs biography (or biopic), you might recall Guy Kawasaki's accidentally-prescient spoof Apple press release[1] from 1994 about a (at the time) hypothetical Apple-NeXT acquisition. Choice quote:

As a cofounder of Apple and the father of Macintosh, Jobs brings back to Apple the type of visionary leadership that enabled Apple to create three of the four personal computer standards (Apple II, Macintosh, and Windows).

1: https://holykaw.alltop.com/1994-spoof-apple-press-release-ab...

"...and Windows)."

Was that supposed to be part of the humor of the article?

http://lowendmac.com/1997/red-box-blue-box-yellow-box/

"Red Box, the planned PC Environment for Rhapsody on Intel hardware, never saw the light of day, although today’s Intel-based Macs have virtualization solutions from other vendors which allow them to run Windows or Linux alongside Mac OS X."

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