Apple got out of the server game long before they adopted aarch64, so that's a trillion worth of server hardware they never would have sold anyway. And probably not actually a trillion.
replyApple was the only one stopping themselves from getting back in. It's not like the Mac is a trillion-dollar market segment to begin with.
replyAlmost everyone including myself had MacBook Pros at my last place of work.
replyIf Apple was in the high-end server market, I see no reason why the company I was working for would not be running macOS on Apple hardware as servers, instead of the fleet of Linux based servers they had.
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replyWhy wait? You can go run macOS as a server right now. It will take you a few hours to get Docker working, and disable mdworker_shared() and turn off SIP, and then install a package manager/XCode utilities, and finally configure macOS to run as a headless UNIX box, but it's attainable.
replyDespite how easy Apple makes it, nobody is really using Macs as a server in production. Apple[0] is not using them as a server in production. They would need a radically different strategy to replace Linux, because their efforts on macOS still haven't replaced Windows.
[0] https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...
USD starts sounding more and more like meaningless tokens. Billion here, trillion there. I still have 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars somewhere.
replyFeels like that here in the U.S., too.
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