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I still have my little AirPort Time Capsule tower. It’s been nearly a decade and that thing has been dutifully backing up my data every single day, save for a few hiccups over the years. I switched it from hourly to daily to maybe get some extra years out of it, but man. I absolutely love that product. The NAS marketplace even to this day hasn’t made a product as simple and seamless as the time capsule - plus it’s a great router!

If they just made a HomePod that also worked as a WiFi router I’d buy the shit out of it.

I still run my house on three of the last airport base stations placed around the house like a mesh network, and airport express scattered around the house for iTunes.

Their routers were superb!! They always worked, never needed to be restarted. I used mine for years and years until it finally broke.

I miss my Airport network best working network setup I have ever had, untill Apple started removing features and settings

I have an amp plugged into a 3.5 mm jack on my AirPort Express and I use it daily. I will be very sad when Apple drops its functionality.

We replaced ours with Google WiFi and been very happy with the results.

The Google WiFi is a mesh solution which is really the way to go in 2023, IMHO.

AirPort was a great product line when the Wi-Fi market was new and competing products were clunky and hard to configure.

Now the market is mature and saturated, last year's $250 router is now $75, and everyone's cable/DSL modem comes with one built-in. It makes no economic sense for Apple to participate in that market because there's little that could differentiate their products from others.

I'm not the biggest fan of the main LTT channel, but macaddress puts out consistently high quality content.

Can't speak for the sponsored asus router they showcased, but I'm liking my google/nest wifi setup

Apple does this a lot tbh, if they want a standard they’ll make it happen then abandon the less profitable infrastructure that others are now doing.

I wish this wasn't a sponsored video because I think there's more natural options for AirPort replacements than the Asus products shown. eero for example "feels" much more like AirPort - simple, inoffensive designs that can fit in to a house's decor with simple app-based setup that you're not supposed to need to touch again afterwards at a much lower price than Asus' offerings.

Man how I hate macaddress.

I had an iBook about 21 or so years ago. It was the white one that came after those original green plastic iMac looking ones, and it was the first device I ever used wifi. I bought my first wifi router because of it, the classic Linksys black and blue, the 802.11b one, g wasn't even out yet.

Jonathan’s vids remind me of old snazzy labs — just some real good history and insight from an enthusiast that the major tech YouTubes gloss over

I had no idea that there were competing wireless standards and apple paved the way to make Wi-Fi the standard. But then again, I wasn't aware of high tech details in 1999. I just thought the iBook was super cool.

This guys face is so punchable

I honestly don't get why anyone would want a new Apple Networking product at all when there are plenty of companies doing it all already. It's not like their network hardware was anything special really.

No offense, I do give them props for adopting new network tech early (at a cost of course), like they are with 10GBs ethernet.

But nothing they make now will sale let alone break much ground. Their network hardware didn't sale much either, with the exception of addon cards ultimately. Its not something Apple can lock down to their benefit ultimately.

I had a couple of the airports. They were a hell of a lot easier to to set up than anything else being made at the time. I wish they still made them. They were expensive as hell, but practically bulletproof.

I’ve been dreaming of a combo of an AirPort mesh WiFi, wired Smoke Detector, and Home Hub.

I’d have a WiFi hub on every floor. I’d be able to free up counter/cabinet space from my HomePods and Eeros that I don’t really need, and I’d be able to replace my Google Nest Detectors and remove the final Google and Amazon devices from my ecosystem.

Years ago a friend of the family had so many wifi issues, it’s gotten better but at the time the standard routers the ISP used to give to users were awful. I bought one of the last Apple wifi routers and it fixed all their issues.

I know it’s probably an industry they don’t want to be involved in, but it’s a shame. Their products were solid.

It’s a travesty Apple got out of wifi routers.. I bought a top of the line linksys wifi 6E router that needs to be restarted every 2 days 😭 fed up with that piece of junk.. 😤