Very true and probably more so when Job was somewhat into computer render animation. That and attention to a good working audio driver setup and API's have helped keep Apple still in the audio DAW industry. AS you say much has changed and can see why they shifted focus. Though I do as many wish they at least had a server flavour, more so given would not be much to change I feel as to what is already there. But exposure to a consumer messing up and a sever messing up can be vastly different in support/costs to make sure 100% right and less customers.
Still they do like consumerising things and who knows, personal home iCloud that sits in your home would perhaps be a likely server offering if any they may take as targeting consumers. That if any route is maybe the one that could happen.
I really wish that the airport extreme routers would expose an itunes home sharing service, so that those of us with laptops and way too much music/videos could stream to airport express/appletv/itunes home sharing without having to have a machine dedicated to the task.
I knwo you can add discs via the USB port and with hub can have a fair few and can network share and backup to them. But not apple user fully and did look but found nothing to enable sync with iCloud beyond a desktop option, though may of missed something. Though did find this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204618 which pertains to remote desktop and related functionality done via your iCloud account, so maybe, though still need to access via iCloud, which if just athorisation would be ok if you had a fallback option.
Still they do like consumerising things and who knows, personal home iCloud that sits in your home would perhaps be a likely server offering if any they may take as targeting consumers. That if any route is maybe the one that could happen.