The number of products that we find in the Apple catalog is today quite large and it occurs to us if these products are really sold. Would you buy a Mac mini, an AirPort router, or an iPod Touch today?
It is possible that the answer to this question is negative in most cases and is that Apple is also not doing anything to change this. The truth is that the iPod is the most sentimental of the three products that I mention, and more considering that it was one of the first products that really stood out in the Cupertino company, but nowadays it does not make sense.
Mac mini
This is the team that touches us most closely in soy de Mac, to Mac and macOS lovers. It is a small desktop computer that allows us to have a Mac anywhere in our house with a really reasonable price but with specifications that it does not really meet. Mac mini has an old design (taking into account the improvements in current technology and components) you have to have a screen, a keyboard and a mouse to be able to use it and without a doubt internal storage is scarce for any user.
Really the model is being set aside by the company itself It has been a long time since it really updated it and it seems that after all this time it is not going to. We can say that "nothing will happen" the day that Apple says to eliminate it from its list of available products, but of course, here the sentimental factor of the maqueros will enter and this is something that will hurt. An update with more innovative components or with a size similar to that of the Apple TV could radically change the course of the Mac mini, but today it seems that Apple is not for the work.
AirPort routers
These Apple routers are still being sold. The AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule, They appear as available in the company's online store but nowadays there are very few who consider their purchase and that is because Apple itself has them as obsolete.
The configuration of these routers led to more than one, although it is true that once launched they are really much better than any other operator router or even well-known brands. In any case, the cons were always present in the heads of the users and it is not that it was one of their star products.
It is true that these types of routers gave their users a lot of satisfaction and that many of them continue to use them today, but it is evident that these routers are not what they were a few years ago. Maybe a change in the focus of these teams closer to NAS It would be a possible solution for them, but we really don't think Apple is capable of doing that and it also doesn't seem like it's thinking of improving them, rather removing them from its catalog.
IPod Touch
I wanted to leave it at the last of "this list" because I really believe that some iPod Touch should sell today, especially to young people and those who do not want an iPhone, but it is really more profitable to buy an iPhone directly and put aside the blind iPod. You may not need to make calls, but it is the same, the iPhone will always be better and more updated in hardware than these iPod Touch.
Another product that plays with the sentimental component of the most veteran users, but another product in the Apple catalog that does not enter the possible purchases of all of us. If you have to buy a music player for a child or a student, it is almost better to go for a second-hand iPhone or one that is not the latest generation, this will give you a much better service than these iPod Touch that a while ago they were not updated either. Maybe to better understand all this you ask yourself the question, would I buy an iPod Touch today?
Not everything is to be up-to-date and we are not saying that all models and equipment that Apple has have to be updated, but it would be good to make some discard in these products or a final auction (with low prices really) so that those who want to get one can do it perfectly. With Macs we have only talked about the Mac mini, but Apple would have to take a good look at its Mac catalog and put some order since there are too many equipment for sale, as happens with the iPhone ... If that, on another occasion we continue.