Apple was an incredibly well established company and the initial iPhone was not used in enterprise… it didn’t really start to take off there until iPhone 4 (2010-2011).

Not to mention the comparison is inane to begin with. Using an iPhone for your enterprise and moving your tech infra to a relatively unknown company are not equivalent at all.

You must have missed the "beleaguered" era.

it's so funny to me that you're harping on this analogy when it's clear you are so stubborn you won't accept anyone else's answer anyways.

iPhones became popular through the bring your own device movement. You aren’t going to see that with racks in a data center

It think it was the other way around. The success of the iPhone (and Android) was a large factor behind the BYD movement.

iPhone was truly transformative.

This just seems like a twist on hyper-converged infrastructure + open source.

I mean, I love their design. I just don’t think it’s special enough to warrant mass adoption. And I certainly wouldn’t be deploying at scale in an enterprise environment with zero widespread adoption.

Small entities will just use cloud same as always. Large companies have a multitude of unique needs that won’t all be catered for by a single box. The big vendors will clean up on that front as usual.

They were not immediately adopted by enterprise customers, in fact. It took years for that.