Apple kills development of its AirPort wireless routers
Nov21
Just as Google’s preparing to start shipping its Wi-Fi router, Apple has reportedly reassigned the engineers tasked with developing its AirPort wireless routers to other product teams, reveals Bloomberg. It’s believed that the company has been slowly shutting down the division over the course of the past year to “sharpen [its] focus on consumer products that generate the bulk of its revenue.” Wi-Fi routers — which fit into the “other products” category of Apple’s annual financial results — accounted for around 5 percent ($11.1 billion) of the firm’s total sales in fiscal 2016. Apple’s hoping to use the extra manpower to…
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