I wonder if Apple needs to reconsider Xserve. While Apple probably have some kind of server infrastructure teams, making their own server infrastructure out of their own hardware and software sounds like something they could explore. The app ecosystem coupled with apples servers offered in the cloud or ones you could buy would be a very interesting service business they could get into. Apples App Store needs better apps given how much the hardware is capable of now especially with iPads using M chips. A cloud backed hardware and software service specially designed for the app ecosystem sounds very tempting.

The hardware has evolved faster than software at Apple. It’s usually the opposite with most tech companies where hardware is unable to keep up with software.