Mniko

I joined Apple twenty-two years ago to support the Xserve and Xserve RAID - rack-mount servers and storage that Apple sold for a few years before abandoning the product line. What made servers not work for Apple then is still true today: - Apple refused to support older operating systems on the server. So if you bought an Xserve you were stuck with whatever OS it came with. Enterprise wants stability with a whole fleet on the same version. - Apple lacks enterprise support. If you report a bug in 27.0 today you can expect that to maybe be fixed in 27.2 at best. There are zero engineers assigned to write code for enterprise. There no way to issue custom patches to customers. - There is no infrastructure for on-site service. Apple has very limited next day on-site service delivered through partners. I hear the quality and responsiveness is pretty bad. Would you like to bring your server into an Apple Store? - Apple at a corporate level doesn’t care about the enterprise. The idea of spinning up an entire product line just for enterprise doesn’t make such sense. Apple sells mainly laptops and phones at the purchasing level, not strategic ai servers to enterprise. Nvidia, Dell, Lenovo etc all have mature teams to do this. - Finally the money just isn’t there. An Apple AI server might sell a few billion dollars in product. That’s just not enough for Apple to fund a whole new product line. Instead, Apple should add more lights-out management and enterprise features to Mac mini and Mac Studio, and invest in supporting MLX and other AI tools on the platform with more assigned headcount. While I can believe the premise of this story that Apple is discussing the idea, I don’t believe it will happen.