alt Hacker NewsBecause they killed the market, no one would now buy a macOS server, when Linux distributions, and to a lesser extent FreeBSD, own the server room.
They would even sell less than Windows Server licenses.
By the way, they are down the same path with the workstation market, now that they only top level answer is the Mac Studio.
Workstation market wants flexible towers that they can customise to their own liking and special use cases.
The main reason Swift exists for Linux, is that app developers need to have servers somewhere, and if they want to share Swift code with the backend, well it isn't going to be on macOS Server.
the SemiAnalysis guy argues that there is a market for macOS servers - running macOS VMs that agents need for computer use. some software is mac only
but Apple needs to change the licensing model, currently you are allowed to run only 2 macOS VMs for every physical one you buy