The Apple AirPort development team is dissolved to focus efforts on other devices of the firm, in this case some of them have focused on the development of Apple TV. Apple has been putting these AirPorts aside for a long time and not long ago we saw how the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule disappeared from their stores in the United States.
Now the firm seems to be clear that it is not worthwhile to continue developing and improving these teams and focuses the work team on other tasks within the company, which does not mean that in the future they can change their opinion. In this case we have been since 2013 without major changes on these computers when they were upgraded to implement the 802.11ac wireless standard.
The aesthetic changes in these Apple routers have been several and if we consider that the benefits of these AirPorts are similar to their price, quite high in general, we have a product that does not seem to contribute much to the user and rebound to the pocket of the signature, so now it seems that they are going to put aside the development of these products.
As has happened with Thunderbolt Displays and the association with LG to make 4k and 5k displays compatible with the port of the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar, We would not be surprised if Apple left the development of these routers to an external firm. The person in charge of making this news public has been none other than Mark Gurman, from the Bloomberg medium for which he works a few months ago.
