Comment by no_wizard

Comment by no_wizard 21 hours ago

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I always wondered what they were hoping for with their server products back when they had them. Consumers and end users benefit greatly from the vertical integration that Apple is good at. This doesn't translate with servers. Commodity hardware + linux is not only cheaper, its often easier, and was definitely less proprietary.

Its also a race to the bottom type scenario. Apple would have never been able to keep up with server release schedules.

Was an interesting but ultimately odd moment of history for servers.

ghaff 35 minutes ago

Pre-iPhone and pre-Intel Mac, Apple was experimenting with a lot of things. The iPod wasn't a clear initial win--and the iPhone wasn't either. A lot of the success happened in retrospect.

ghaff 15 hours ago

Companies were still figuring out Linux with servers at the time. Xserve seemed like it might be something of interest to at least academia but Apple never really had their heart in it as I wrote at the time.