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If you could revive one discontinued Apple product or abandoned project…
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How would Apple distinguish that from all the other perfectly good WiFi routers on the market?
Back when Apple's Airport stuff came out, it was certainly more user friendly, and more likely to work with Macs, than the PC-centric competition, but these days the competition has improved a lot and mostly "just works" with Macs and iDevices.
Many people already get a WiFi router bundled (or as a subsidised extra) with their broadband connection & these have the advantage of installation and support from your broadband provider, and many basic users will never need to look at the admin interface.
I suspect people who upgrade from their provided router will be looking for bells & whistles & complexity rather than Apple's trademark ease-of-use.
Not saying that Apple couldn't offer a useful product, but I don't see it getting much market share.
Apple documentation regulary updated in iBooks that you can take with you, instead of web based HTML.
- a classic style iPod
- leather iPhone cases and apple watch bands
- project red stuff
- a mac pro tower with pcie slots and upgradeable ram and standard m.2 nvme SSDs that starts at $1499
- ya know what? F it. An iPhone with a headphone jack. There I said it.
Wow. I agree with almost everyone here! (Pippin? C’mon now) My visceral and immediate response, and thus highest priority, would be
Aperture
I loved my 13 mini, and hate the Dickens out of networking post AirPort and Xserve, and have family members who would love iPods (my wife still does 90% of her digital life on an iPod touch…)
I miss Product(Red) colours, the 12” MacBook, and a full fat Mac Pro.
Aperture
I loved my 13 mini, and hate the Dickens out of networking post AirPort and Xserve, and have family members who would love iPods (my wife still does 90% of her digital life on an iPod touch…)
I miss Product(Red) colours, the 12” MacBook, and a full fat Mac Pro.
Ohhh… a Product(Red) 12” retina MacBook with Apple Silicon and 5G connectivity ♥️ Dreams are free.
It's not a product on its own, but I would bring back the headphone jack on the base iPad.
I had them and also 3rd party routers. The takeaway for me was that both were easy enough to set up and I used the Airports to wifi each other and then connected devices to the routers via cable. As far as rating performance - honestly they were middle of the pack and highest in cost relative to router offerings at that time.
I think if Apple returned to this market, they would have to likely create a great mesh system, have it include HomeKit facets and more. A full eco update as it were and be at least at WiFi 7 ability.
I would love to see it return in a manner that would marry well to Apple's purchase of Pixelmator. I try to avoid Adobe products when possible and admit I would like a nice DAM software with some edit capability as Aperture had.
I appreciate your points but I vastly prefer my router to be configured and managed with an on device app like Airport Utility instead of a browser.
Yeah... I think we'll have to agree to diametrically opposite positions on that one. I rather like my network devices to stay usable once the maker stops supporting the app.
Strongly agree! Books also tend to give insight how various options are intended to be used. Having examples would be a real plus. One book that comes to mind was Microsoft's book on style sheets in Word for DOS, giving step by step instructions on how to create/modify them, how to use them and why one should use them. IMHO, the implemtation of style sheets have gone backwards since then.
