Thread 106287509

What if apple were to get into the personal home server market?

The latest mac minis are super capable little machines at a reasonably entry level price point. For the majority of normal users that would only see casual traffic, It's a great entry level machine and for power users that need more they could of course spend as much as they want on apple hardware.

I think this would be great for the internet as we know it. I think it would be a return to decentralization and a relief from censorship. People could self host whatever they want and choose what to make available to their friends or to the public. you just need that one nerd in your friend group that's willing to maintain it, and that's not entirely different that what we have now. If you can manage a discord server, you could probably manage an iServer (tm).

This would not only be a win for "decentralized" internet, but also for Apple. Apple would not only be selling a "whole new class" of machines, but they would also have a whole new "app store" that would be dedicated to selling "server apps". These server apps would be basically glorified docker containers that would probably go through a similar review process as what apple already has in place for the app store. Apple could create a dedicated normie facing "ServerOS" that simplifies homelabbing enough to make it accessible to younger people or adults with moderate technical skills.

I know there are plenty of holes in this idea, but I can't help but feel like it could be a win/win both for internet users and for Apple.

What do you think?

>>106287509 (OP)
based retard

>>106287527
I'll take that as the highest compliment this board is capable of giving. thanks for your input

This could also be a lucrative new market for developers to build user centric server driven apps for a market that is willing to actually pay money for things

>>106287509 (OP)
since we're throwing around irrational ideas, apple could also make a Kid Store for selling child porn exclusively available on iPed devices

it would immediately be bombed with cheese pizza by people who either dont like you or just want to troll you and you'd be sent to jail

yeah so 4chan inherits the internet what are you complaining about? apple already has authentication services with apple id so it would be easy for end users to decide who can use their server

>>106287509 (OP)
> ai generated advertising slop for corporation that's lost over $1 trillion dollars in the last few months

>>106287509 (OP)
>mac minis are super capable little machines at a reasonably entry level price point.
And has no real advantage for a server. Number one is storage/expandability, something it totally lacks (and always will due to apples greed)

But most importantly, the problem isn't that self-hosting is hard, because it's not. It's easy enough and plenty of people are willing to do it.

The problem is getting normies to use things. A FAGMAN corporation needs to add self-hosted combability, let's say apple added "decentralized support" to imessage, that could work.

> >>106288158
>plenty of people are willing to do it.

there's a fair number of us, sure, but I'm arguing here that it's not "plenty" compared to what it could be if a mainstream company like apple were to embrace and capitalized on it, or "plenty" compared to the early days when a much higher percentage of then internet was hosted in house.

>>106288158
> no storage

in this hypothetical scenario apple could easily tweak the specs. I'm not saying they use a literal mac mini, just something similar form factor and price point that some normie can set it next to their time warner router and configure it from their iphone

why the fuck are web retards these days so commonly in the opinion that you need anything even resembling desktop computing power to host some fucking crud
My dingy fucking TV is overpowered for this shit
the industry deserves everything that’s coming to it
a tip for you retards: the bottleneck is consumer grade networks especially in shitholes like the US

>>106288295
I mean yeah that's kind of what I'm getting at. It's more than enough computer for simple shit so it would be plenty for every day users but apple could still charge good money and tip their hat to the public about how performant they are.

>>106287509 (OP)
Apple is nothing but the Gucci, Hermes, Chanel, Prada, Rolex, etc. of tech. There's nothing it does that something far more affordable can do. Kids literally get bullied in school for whipping out a Android phone versus an iPhone.

America is now defined, more than anything else, by income inequality. It shapes everything now. And there's only two sides: those that can afford something simply because they can afford it, and those that can't. And because most of you can't, those that can feel special and privileged.

So, to answer your question OP, who gives a fuck. If Apple released a personal home server, most of you can't really afford it. Oh, some of you will blow your budget or credit trying; but in the end, it will just be something that could've been done on Linux for free and some affordable hardware we could do ourselves.

retarded apple shill thread No. 9855424435

ITT: poorfags seething.