The comment by the Product Development guy that they would have to "sell two or three Jonathans to equal the profit of a single Mac" came across as super myopic to me. This is one of those situations where you can make it up on volume, and accomplish a whole lot of greater goals along the way.

Amazon's explosive growth in cloud services, Linus' recent comments about how x86 has an advantage over ARM because developers want the server to optimally mirror the desktop environment, and the increasing need for datacenter-like hub functionality at the edge all suggest to me that this was possibly Apple's biggest missed chance to get a foothold on the server side.