Official reason
AirPort products discontinued.
Apple · Hardware
AirPort Extreme
RIP
2003–2018 · 15 years in market
Apple’s routers and Time Capsule. Left the networking business to specialists.
Launched
Jan 1, 2003
Discontinued
Apr 26, 2018
Cause of death
Strategic refocus
What actually happened
Routers became a low-margin, fast-refresh category. Apple hates those.
Lesson
Exit categories where you will not refresh yearly. Tell the home-lab people before the last unit sells out.
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Various
Eero / Orbi / UniFi
The mesh generation Apple skipped.
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