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It's a bit weird that Apple recently killed their Airport products[1]. Seems like it would be a good thing to retain, after all the router/wifi is sort of the n
by sandstrom 10y ago
It's a bit weird that Apple recently killed their Airport products[1]. Seems like it would be a good thing to retain, after all the router/wifi is sort of the nexus of any home. Sure, they may not directly make a lot of money off them but they that's also the case with many other things Apple make (iOS, for example).
Most of Apple products (Mac/iPhones/iPads/AppleTV/[future Apple home product]) go through them.
Google went the other direction, recently adding routers to their product mix.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/11/report-apple-has-broken-up-its-airport-team-wont-be-making-new-routers/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/11/report-apple-has-broken...
- snowwrestler 10y agoRouters are mostly built into broadband modems now, or provided as part of the service. They are dumb; the value is moving toward WiFi-enabled smart devices like the set-top box or Echo or heck the smartphone itself. The big selling points of Apple WiFi routers were the ease of use and the integrated Time Machine backups. Now they are hard to use (since there is already an ISP-supplied router to work around) and people backup online instead of locally.
- johnsmith21006 10y agoApple had the Airport line for 17 years. Google announced the launch date for their new mesh WiFi network and Apple ended the line 1 week before the Google release. Probably a weird coincidence but is interesting.