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[Mac Address] "Apple cancelled this, now what?" The history of early apple wifi and airport (www.youtube.com)
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[–] lw5555@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

AirPort was a great product line when the Wi-Fi market was new and competing products were clunky and hard to configure.

Now the market is mature and saturated, last year's $250 router is now $75, and everyone's cable/DSL modem comes with one built-in. It makes no economic sense for Apple to participate in that market because there's little that could differentiate their products from others.