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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by arcticbull on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:25AM (#24676701)
I don't think they were really interested in the market honestly. They did it because they felt the needed to, to support use cases like CI for macOS and iOS apps. It was all about supporting the Apple developer community. They cut it as soon as it wasn't necessary, IMO.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by jsjohnst on Sunday October 04, 2020 @09:52AM (#24679047)
> They did it because they felt the needed to, to support use cases like CI for macOS and iOS apps

Actually, the Xserve platform really had nothing to do with that. Xserve’s were partly designed and built for the high end video production industry (as an extension of the Mac Pro hardware) and partly as a general purpose small to medium size business file server / web server (which the Mac Mini has subsumed what’s left of that space).

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