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Is that a market they're willing to go after?
by Causality1 6y ago
Is that a market they're willing to go after?
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoProbably not, they dropped the Xserve devices a long time ago.
- blunte 6y agoTrue, but that was a long time ago. And now they _could_ make a compelling data center device if they decided they could capture a decent part of that market. They could take the Mac Mini concept and reconfigure it a bit like blade servers, and then offer compute clusters with better performance for much lower power levels (and heat levels) than any competitor... if they wanted. The biggest challenge would be deciding whether to put in the macOS effort to re-establish a server tier, or (even less likely) to allow Linux on it. In terms of stock market safety, they shouldn't bother with any of this. They now have created a big enough disruption and market growth potential in the consumer space that should give them plenty of wave to ride for years. But eventually, the momentum will slow; then whatever else they started working on a few years prior (such as this server idea) would show up just in time to blast the sails.