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Apple doesn't see value in going after the server market.

• XorNot 3y ago
  The consumer might replace their laptop once a year, at a fast cadence, but they don't wake up one day and say "I actually need 3 laptops". Whereas datacenters are now being built constantly, and any future projection would estimate that we're going to keep building more - and if you were unsure before, then the sudden popularity of training AIs and their massive demand for compute should've convinced you. Apple aren't going to leave money on the table (otherwise they'd still be shipping iPhones with chargers and including dongles with laptops): if they're not targeting server markets, it's because their internal modelling is telling them that what they've got is probably at best a peer-capability, rather then some type of vast excession (or would be wiped out easily by another gen of server grade chip releases).
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    Apple already failed twice on the server market, A/UX and Xserve, and decided it wasn't for them. They would have to offer a top option with macOS to make it relevant, as they certainly aren't going to be offering their hardware to run GNU/Linux on top of it. It happened once, with MkLinux, and that is also something that management won't be keen in repeating.