BrianJ

SpamSandwich said:

sflocal said:

It breaks my heart that Apple discontinued their Airport products.  They are by far the best built, most reliable units I've ever owned.  Sure, others like DLink, NetGer, Linksys, etc.. may have more features for tech-savvy people, but their quality is crap, are unstable, and always require a restart.

What a shame.

Apple really should offer their own mesh wireless system. It doesn't matter that there are many competitors in this space, when people go in to buy an Apple solution, they want to buy everything Apple sells. It's just money they're leaving on the table, IMO.

There are a lot of things that Apple leaves on the table which allows for others to provide a solution.  Apple likes to focus on the big and flashy things that people replace all the time.  Routers are boring and too commonplace for Apple to get excited about.  They pretty much gave up on them 5 years ago, and it really shows.  There is so much more that could have been done with them that would make for a better home network experience, but again, too boring, so they hit the chopping block.

Yes, there are other ways to accomplish what Back to My Mac did.  However, none are as simple and as elegant.  The cool thing about back to my mac is I could turn it on, then access my mac no matter where it was. No other software to install or configure. If I need to remote control a machine I could. If I needed to grab a file from anywhere on the hard drive, I could.