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For all we know Apple is just canning Airport and launching a new product that replaces it and does other things. It seems kind of silly for Apple to sell a ha
by Steko 10y ago
For all we know Apple is just canning Airport and launching a new product that replaces it and does other things.
It seems kind of silly for Apple to sell a handful of separate products --each replaceable by outside companies' offerings -- when they could instead sell one integrated Apple TV/Airport/Time Capsule/MacMini/whatever. Slap a touchscreen on it call it (Apple icon) Home and sell it for $299 (or $499 if you want a decent SSD).
- acqq 10y agoApple Airport Time Capsule is now $399, with 3 TB HDD. "The Time capsule doubles as a backup storage hard drive for Mac computers." It seems that they won't offer even anything like that, when the "people familiar with the matter" are right. From the article: "Apple began shutting down the wireless router team over the past year, dispersing engineers to other product development groups" "Apple hasn’t refreshed its routers since 2013 following years of frequent updates to match new standards from the wireless industry. The decision to disband the team indicates the company isn’t currently pushing forward with new versions of its routers."
- Steko 10y ago> Time Capsule is now $399 Yeah maybe add $x00 to my examples above. > "Apple began shutting down the wireless router team over the past year, dispersing engineers to other product development groups" It specifically says they put some of them on the Apple TV team and Apple is generally pretty secretive about entirely new offerings. "Apple is getting out of the router business" is clearly an extrapolation from "Airport is not going to get future updates". That may be correct but it's not a 'matter' that the sources are likely to be 'familiar' with unless they are senior executives.