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Part of the Furniture
Most know that Apple is having a launch event next week - we're expecting new iPhones/iPads/AppleTV, and the rumour mills are churning hard... yeah it's hit's on the Apple crack pipe maybe...
The neglected children in their product line - Airports... and Airports have always been decent router/AP's that are somewhat vendor agnostic...
I'm actually thinking we might see an Airport Extreme AC2600 - might be Broadcom, but could be QC/Atheros... but we could be surprised with a Marvell solution - Apple has used all three vendors in their solutions over the years...
And the Airport Express - it's showing it's age - the current one is QCA based as an N600 class device, dropping in an 802.11ac 5GHz radio supporting AC867 could put it into the AC1200 class with the current SoC, but would be good to see the AP Express get GiGE... but perhaps moving the Express back to Broadcom (iDevices are all BRCM except for the 1st gen iPod Touch, which was Marvell)
Software... not that anyone cares unless you track apple builds...
Apple's done a lot of development on iOS for HomeKit, and iOS is Darwin (XNU) plus FreeBSD - the current Airport builds (7.6.x for express, 7.7 for ExtremeAC) are NetBSD based, but moving forward, perhaps they move the Airports into the darwin realm to support HomeKit and their iCloud stuff...
The neglected children in their product line - Airports... and Airports have always been decent router/AP's that are somewhat vendor agnostic...
I'm actually thinking we might see an Airport Extreme AC2600 - might be Broadcom, but could be QC/Atheros... but we could be surprised with a Marvell solution - Apple has used all three vendors in their solutions over the years...
And the Airport Express - it's showing it's age - the current one is QCA based as an N600 class device, dropping in an 802.11ac 5GHz radio supporting AC867 could put it into the AC1200 class with the current SoC, but would be good to see the AP Express get GiGE... but perhaps moving the Express back to Broadcom (iDevices are all BRCM except for the 1st gen iPod Touch, which was Marvell)
Software... not that anyone cares unless you track apple builds...
Apple's done a lot of development on iOS for HomeKit, and iOS is Darwin (XNU) plus FreeBSD - the current Airport builds (7.6.x for express, 7.7 for ExtremeAC) are NetBSD based, but moving forward, perhaps they move the Airports into the darwin realm to support HomeKit and their iCloud stuff...