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NeXT changed its business plan in mid-1986.

The company decided to develop both computer hardware and software, instead of just a low-end workstation.

A team led by Avie Tevanian, who had joined the company after working as one of the Mach kernel engineers at Carnegie Mellon University, was to develop the NeXTSTEP operating system.

The hardware division, led by Rich Page, one of the cofounders who had previously led the Apple Lisa team, designed and developed the hardware.

NeXT's first factory was completed in Fremont, California in 1987.

It was capable of producing 150, 000 machines per year.

NeXT's first workstation was officially named the NeXT Computer, although it was widely referred to as " the cube " because of its distinctive case, a 1 ft x 1 ft x 1 ft magnesium cube, an edict of Jobs ' designed by Apple IIc case designer Frogdesign.