Apple axing airports - time to step up!
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Man, I never saw that coming.
I think a mesh network of AP's with a pfsense head is pretty unbeatable.
I wonder what their crystal ball saw where they decided not to compete.
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wonder if its not related to there dealing with cisco
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most likely the fact they realized they cannot make a profit on access points with their over-priced half baked APs when you can buy full featured enterprise quality access points now adays for ~50-70 bucks from engenious, netgear, ubiquiti, D-Link, even lower end cisco units.
Even if a customer manages too swallow the 100% markup to buy a mac, they will choke on the same markup for an access point. Especially when it has the same chipset as a bunch of the other brands, stuffed into a Apple fancy plastic shell.
FYI most if not all of the Apple Airport devices are just broadcom units, a few were also Lucent made…. With a super expensive apple shell.
Dont believe me...... Check this link.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort -
Sure that's their MO. Their software is what people want. Whatever it comes on is another story.
The airport software is pretty cool - but yeah not very tweaker friendly. It's easy to keep up with mesh stuff though as it will lay out all the devices and remember their passwords and stuff.