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Yes, because they already moved on to workstations powered by either Windows or Red-Hat Linux/Ubuntu.

The only ones left were people like John Siracusa that still hoped to the very last minute, that Apple would change their mind.

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True, they could do any number of things. But a datacenter play would appear quite random to investors and their core audience. Broadcom + Nvidia however...
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Apple seems to be content to sell shovels in the AI gold rush.

Admittedly… what’s on my desk? A MacBook M4 Air, a Mac Studio, and there’s an x86 iMac in the corner.

What goes in the travel bag? A MacBook Pro or the Air.

Every time I look at buying something else the math doesn’t add up.

The 5090 sits in a commodity PC chassis. It’s not like I need a model running on my own computer.

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