> For Apple to build out a dedicated server farm to accommodate even 50% of all their current users would be extremely challenging fyi there have been rumors t

> For Apple to build out a dedicated server farm to accommodate even 50% of all their current users would be extremely challenging fyi there have been rumors that apple is looking to scale out Mac Pro production for their own server farms to support this. Since ultra is a super niche product normally this obviously is going to be like, several orders of magnitude of increase here. Obviously there is the conventional wisdom that apple doesn’t do server and the server market doesn’t do apple, and they may continue to prefer commodity/off-the-shelf server hardware for the bulk of their iCloud infra, but things may be different with the bottleneck on AI hardware at the moment.