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Apple Ceases Development of 'AirPort' Wireless Routers as Engineers Reassigned to Other Products
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What for? Amazon benefits by steering you towards buying stuff from them. Google benefits by monetizing your privacy. How would Apple (or conversely, their customers) benefit from a Siri-in-the-box?
This is really unfortunate. It just shows that Apple isn't creating a full ecosystem of products that "just work" together. Apple really needs to pull it together. They can't be giving up business. There are network effects of having product lines like the displays and the routers.
For the same reason they removed Gigabit Ethernet from the ATV4.
Shuffling packets with lots of interrupts from hardware doesn't provide a guarantee for smooth audio and video playback
I can't believe that Apple is going to leave networking up to a 3rd party. Their entire ecosystem relies on seamless wifi integration.
HomeKit, iOS, AirPlay, AppleTv etc.
HomeKit, iOS, AirPlay, AppleTv etc.
A couple benefits are that it would make Homekit more useful and give them another platform for Apple Music.
Getting solid performance from mine. Both wired and wifi are delivering the same speeds. Couldn't be happier. Plus it looks really cool. Best home router I have ever owned (easily topping the Time Capsule).
Conceded in the looks department. It's not bad. The lights are a little strong out of the box but easily adjustable via the app.
I'm keeping it for the time being as a backup. But I could never top 70 down when I tried it, and the other issues (internal speed test not working and no IPv6) although not deal-breakers were not encouraging.
So...the AppleTV or whatever hub they may be developing will provide the AirPort functionality?
Amazon Echo and any other intrusive device may not be the answer...
Amazon Echo and any other intrusive device may not be the answer...
All this talk about moving engineers to other teams to focus on something is plain BS. What is Apple? A garage outfit with 2 qualified developers? They are a multi billion dollar company. If they had interest, they could hire hundreds of engineers to have qualified personnel for dozens of different departments and still be sitting on a mountain of cash for years to come, even if they only sold photo books and Christmas trees.
You have to ask yourself how could Apple develop a variety of amazing products 10 years ago and still was able to pump up great software, like Final Cut Studio, Aperture, etc AND develop new products like the iPhone and iPad. All this while they were a much smaller and financial less successful company.
You know the answer: they had a great leader. Like kdarling correctly analyzed with the ultimate demanding user at its helm: Jobs.
No, we slowly have to face the truth, that Apple under its current leadership of Cook, Ive, Schiller, etc, is incapable of developing meaningful things anymore. New hardware is a frikkin joke, the only driving vision is thinner. Instead of useful software we get Emoijs. WTF? Where is the replacement for Aperture? Sure as hell its not Photos, not by a very long shot, which never started strong but is at its current state downright laughable.
They give me the Impression that they need to scremble more and more to come up with something in order to keep the hype up. Schiller looks more and more stressed out during presentations because he is spinning at 107% - knowing that he will have to make dozens of interviews afterwards in order to explain things.
The magical pipeline of Cook is nothing more than his rear end. With incredible products to match!
Ha Ha, great. While I am typing this, the keyboard app on my iPad has stopped working properly. Can't access the secondary page for quotation marks or emojis anymore. The Apple of Two Thousand Sixteen! Sorry. I can't type in any numbers anymore. That function has failed on my keyboard app as well just now.
Lazy, buggy and anbandomed products, a company which lost its soul.
You have to ask yourself how could Apple develop a variety of amazing products 10 years ago and still was able to pump up great software, like Final Cut Studio, Aperture, etc AND develop new products like the iPhone and iPad. All this while they were a much smaller and financial less successful company.
You know the answer: they had a great leader. Like kdarling correctly analyzed with the ultimate demanding user at its helm: Jobs.
No, we slowly have to face the truth, that Apple under its current leadership of Cook, Ive, Schiller, etc, is incapable of developing meaningful things anymore. New hardware is a frikkin joke, the only driving vision is thinner. Instead of useful software we get Emoijs. WTF? Where is the replacement for Aperture? Sure as hell its not Photos, not by a very long shot, which never started strong but is at its current state downright laughable.
They give me the Impression that they need to scremble more and more to come up with something in order to keep the hype up. Schiller looks more and more stressed out during presentations because he is spinning at 107% - knowing that he will have to make dozens of interviews afterwards in order to explain things.
The magical pipeline of Cook is nothing more than his rear end. With incredible products to match!
Ha Ha, great. While I am typing this, the keyboard app on my iPad has stopped working properly. Can't access the secondary page for quotation marks or emojis anymore. The Apple of Two Thousand Sixteen! Sorry. I can't type in any numbers anymore. That function has failed on my keyboard app as well just now.
Lazy, buggy and anbandomed products, a company which lost its soul.
In 2009 I was so annoyed with worthless linksys routers getting calls from my parents and my own issues.
I bought my parents an airport express and me an AirPort Extreme. Seven years later both are running strong, never had an issue. Seeing this news makes me shed a single tear. On the other hand I've heard the competition finally makes competent products so not really a space they need to be in any longer.
I bought my parents an airport express and me an AirPort Extreme. Seven years later both are running strong, never had an issue. Seeing this news makes me shed a single tear. On the other hand I've heard the competition finally makes competent products so not really a space they need to be in any longer.
Words of wisdom. One Apple should engrave in stone above their executive entrance—and exit.
Whaaat???
I understand why they shut down their display business (though I'm not happy with it) because apart from design, they couldn't really make a difference in the display business.
But the AirPort, and especially the Time Capsule, really made a difference. I've never had a backup system that worked more smoothly and without any maintenance at all than my Time Capsule.
Sad day. Again.
This makes NO business sense. I went to a 100% apple environment in 2012 and was going to replace my time capsule this upcoming year. Apple needs to fire Tim Cook he is killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Exactly. Now this is interesting from here..http://dailyquint.com/2016-11-21-meeder-asset-management-inc-lowers-its-position-in-apple-inc-aapl/ "In other news, CEO Timothy D. Cook sold 334,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, August 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $107.23, for a total transaction of $35,814,820.00. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website."
WTF??? I think it may be time to jump off the Apple bandwagon.
I can't wait until whatever Apple releases to compete with Alexa and Home gets stuck in one of these (which will no doubt happen with the first release); because that's what is probably going to replace something useful like Airport Express & Extreme.
(though I kind of think this is what is going on with the Apple Executives now)
(though I kind of think this is what is going on with the Apple Executives now
)We don't have Eero or Amplifi in the UK but Netgear Orbi is released in December.
Will watch with interest as the AEBS needs updating. As does the 10 year old iMac that has no compelling Apple replacement.
2017 could be the year I dump Apple completely.
Will watch with interest as the AEBS needs updating. As does the 10 year old iMac that has no compelling Apple replacement.
2017 could be the year I dump Apple completely.
The writing is on the wall, we've all read it. Apple is clearly getting out of the 'computer' business and focusing on the 'gadget' business.
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For iOS devices, perhaps. Where's the desktop innovation?
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For iOS devices, perhaps. Where's the desktop innovation?
Stupid forum doesn't time stamp quotes. I posted this back in May.
Well this is disappointing. I bought an AirPort Extreme over two years ago and it has been the most reliable router I've ever owned. I think I've only had to reset it a few times due to ISP issues. My NEC router before that was always crashing and causing problems. I was hoping Apple would release a new Thunderbolt/USBC or USB3 version sometime soon, but I guess I will have to look elsewhere eventually.
Tim is proving to be a moron, running Apple into the ground. He needs to get the hell out. He doesn't use Apple products obviously.
I view apologists like you symptomatic with the the current affairs of Apple: the downfall. You seem to live in a world of black and white, thinking those who raise their concerns are the haters and the whiners with you righteously positioned on the other side.
No, let me explain you something: I am whining because Apple, when they were a much smaller company, was able to cater for normalos, enthusiasts and professionals alike. They developed a much wider range of products and were still able to grow with relative good focus.
Now, a lot of billion of dollars later, all of a sudden they need to streamline their products and focus solely on consumer stuff. On trivial, superficial gimmicks. And worse, people like you seem to believe and defend this BS.
I honestly don't care if Tim Cook for instance decides to include the option of wrapping your iMessages in pink bubbles. But for sure as heck I care if in order to include gimmickal stuff like that developments in other areas seem to have come to a screeching and grinding hold.
I am sorry to say this: but with your first 2-3 sentences you have excluded yourself out of any deep, analytical discussions.