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> Apple doesn't want to be in the server market and I don't think that will change any time soon. It might. Mac sales have been declining for several years now
by tomcam 3y ago
> Apple doesn't want to be in the server market and I don't think that will change any time soon.
It might. Mac sales have been declining for several years now.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago> Mac sales have been declining for several years now. I’m not so sure about that. I think the Apple Silicon thing added a big boost. But I’m often wrong. I’m sure there’s numbers, somewhere.
- tomcam 3y agoIn their SEC filings. Less boring version: https://www.macworld.com/article/2130070/mac-sales-slump-revenue-services-growth.html https://www.macworld.com/article/2130070/mac-sales-slump-rev...
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoFair ‘nuff. Time will tell. But I never found Mac servers particularly compelling. We used to have a couple of XServes (and the overpriced RAID disks), for years in our rack, where I worked. We never bothered using distributed builds, which was probably the only unique service they offered.
- GeekyBear 3y agoAfter the pandemic purchasing spike for both home schooling and work from home, every computer manufacturer's sales declined. In Apple's case you also have the people who upgraded early for the M1 performance boost, and they aren't likely to toss out a new computer unless they are doing cutting edge tasks.
- hindsightbias 3y agoYeah, Covid will probably result in waves of refresh. Anecdote wise, my corp forced a refresh in Q4 so I expect a crest is coming in 2024.