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I doubt it. Apple has been systematically withdrawing from the server space for years, and I doubt they are particularly likely to reverse that trend. Servers a
by richardwhiuk 10y ago
I doubt it. Apple has been systematically withdrawing from the server space for years, and I doubt they are particularly likely to reverse that trend. Servers are relatively low margin with a small brand impact. Apple plays well in consumer electronics where brand has much more of an impact on margin.
- astrodust 10y agoApple buys generic Intel kit for their datacentres, and did this even when making their own server product. Consuming your own output isn't good for margins, and like many large-scale providers, you must acknowledge vanity hardware isn't any faster than bare motherboards in a rack. The more bare-bones the better. The XServe and friends were intended for small-scale deployments. They did a few partnerships to build clusters of them for HPC but that was largely a demonstration, not a target customer base.