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They discontinued the xserve in 2011, was nice buying the last three of them directly from Apple.

I was using that to point out that they have abandoned their audience before. This would not be that surprising.

Nobody is buying servers any more. You just spin up one in seconds on AWS instead.

Even enterprises are moving everything to the cloud.

That's a half truth about what is going on now. But in 2011 it wasn't.

Xserve RAID is still the most beautiful SAN ever designed. From time to time I still contemplate buying one just to make my home lab rack look better.