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[Mac Address] "Apple cancelled this, now what?" The history of early apple wifi and airport (www.youtube.com)

submitted 11 months ago by avboden@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] CrashingOnward@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I honestly don't get why anyone would want a new Apple Networking product at all when there are plenty of companies doing it all already. It's not like their network hardware was anything special really.

No offense, I do give them props for adopting new network tech early (at a cost of course), like they are with 10GBs ethernet.

But nothing they make now will sale let alone break much ground. Their network hardware didn't sale much either, with the exception of addon cards ultimately. Its not something Apple can lock down to their benefit ultimately.

[–] __theoneandonly@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Once upon a time, the ISPs would send you a modem and you had to buy a router separately. And then even for a while, they'd include a modem/wireless router combo, but it often sucked and a lot of people would buy a separate router anyway.

Nowadays? The ISPs are giving you free wireless routers that do everything the masses will ever need. My ISP, Verizon, even does little monthly self tests on the network and they'll apparently send us free mesh networking nodes if they detect there's an area where some of our devices aren't getting good signal.

Why would apple even compete in this arena? When most users are having their needs met by their ISP for free? The only people really buying routers nowadays are the power users who want to be on the cutting edge of technology. And that's an area where apple doesn't like to compete. So it makes sense that they don't.