[tl]

I asked an Apple (via a sales rep who visited our company to showcase in internal iPad healthcare app) to please do this for iCloud when iCloud Drive was in-development. We would have easily paid $50,000 for a rack-able Mac Pro you could point "managed" devices at.

Apple simply cannot comprehend the ask.

[Aurornis]

> Apple simply cannot comprehend the ask.

Apple knows the market demand for this type of device.

You may have paid $50,000 for it, but you’re only one customer. At Apple scale they need to focus their finite resources on the products that serve the largest market demand.

$50,000 rack mount servers are not a large demand.

[tl]

You'd be surprised. This was the same conversation where Numbers was pitched as an Excel replacement.

[thisislife2]

Apple just doesn't do "enterprise" well - they need to poach some Microsoft employees to figure it out.

[dwaite]

Apple has plenty of enterprise-specific features.

From a historic standpoint though Apple came back from near-death because they differentiated by focusing on the consumer first.

While other companies were recycling the same beige boxes meant to be tucked under desks for home use, Apple came out with products in candy colors.

While Microsoft was rolling out new business process tool SKUs, Apple came out with GarageBand and bundled it in for free.

Apple is not the company prioritizing going after a Fortune 500 company to replace their fleet with Macs. So their focus isn't going to be to design products and features to try to get that deal closed.

[runako]

They had Xserve, it didn't sell well enough to survive.

[Danox]

How do you design XServe being tied to IBM/Intel the way you want to make it, and why would you, when you’re having problems with Intel, why? would you go any further with Intel hardware wise? Makes no sense. The next four years will be interesting with an engineer CEO in charge.