[bigyabai]

If Xserve is any basis of comparison, Apple struggles to sell datacenter hardware in the best of markets. The competition is too hot nowadays, and Apple likely knows the investment wouldn't be worth it. ARM CPUs are available from Ampere and Nvidia now, Apple Silicon would have to differentiate itself more than it does on mobile. After a certain point, it probably does come down to the size of the margins on consumer hardware.

[ahmeni]

I will never not be forever saddened by the fact that Apple killed their Xserve line shortly before the App store got big. We all ended up having to do dumb things like rack-mount Mac Minis for app CI builds for years and it was such a pain.