iPad 3 Announcement 7th March

[pctech]

Of course its to promote the cloud, they are spending millions building data cnetres (HP Proliant servers rather than colocated Mac Minis or Mac Pros in there, really confident in their hardware then)

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/companies/apple/

The aim is of course platform lock in.

[Lance]

I'm assuming you are not serious about them using consumer hardware as data centre hardware?

[pctech]

They sell Mac minis with OSX server, if you are confident in the performance of the product why not show it and base your services on it or bring back the Xserve?

[Technical Ben]

They left that game ages ago it seems.
Look at some of the biggest players. They are "middle men" (Banks and media distributes). Apples seems to be aiming for this. They provide service between the consumer and the businesses via the Ipad/etc.

[Glenn]

Take your iPad 3 apart

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3-4G-Teardown/8277/1

[Simon]

Yeah, right!