And they reflect their marketplace. There was a time when they made servers and high-end workstations, but the profits from the idiot boxes were greater.
Hey, now. A Mac Pro tower was a viable choice as late as 2014. They'd been long in the tooth for 2 years by then, but still... And XServes were the shit if you could trick someone else into paying for them. Even now they're gorgeous paperweights. That's the fundamental problem with Apple: "We control every aspect of the ecosystem so we don't have to talk to anyone else." AppleTalk is a fucking nightmare. Back To My Mac is a heinous assemblage of IPV6, Apache and other ad-hoc bullshit that makes it totally not work unless you're on Apple networking hardware on both ends. There's a reason iPhoto encrypts your images - so Apple doesn't have to let anyone else look at your photos. iMessage? Don't get me started. It all works great so long as it's all Apple. Inject a single device they don't control the protocols on implicitly, though...