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>But why wouldn't Apple be looking into commercial uses with deep pocket buyers instead? Because Apple has never makes things with business-to-business intent.
by qball 4y ago
>But why wouldn't Apple be looking into commercial uses with deep pocket buyers instead?
Because Apple has never makes things with business-to-business intent. Sure, there's iOS MDM, and what little passes for networking in macOS in general (and briefly, the Xserve), but that's the full extent to which they're made for business use.
It's all only ever been higher-end consumer-level stuff, and the fact that some businesses happen to use their gear is more a happy accident than anything Apple themselves explicitly planned for- they didn't have a good rackmounting solution for years after you'd find businesses hacking together server room mounts for the circular computers.
So no, I don't think they'll be explicitly courting businesses- sure, they could almost certainly make a good run at it (especially with the technological edge they enjoy now, but will likely lose to Nuvia-Qualcomm in the coming years), but that's just not how they've worked for their entire existence as a company.
- riffraff 4y agoWasn't there a large calibrated monitor aimed at visual production companies?
- poulsbohemian 4y ago>Because Apple has never makes things with business-to-business intent. But they do target sophisticated professions willing to spend a premium when it makes sense to that profession. And that's what I was trying to convey - there have to be domains out there where it makes sense to have this kind of device OR it has to fit in a similar niche as the Watch.