Apple AirPort
Also known as AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, AirPort Time Capsule
- Cause of death
- Killed by a successor
- Made by
- Apple
Apple confirmed it was discontinuing the AirPort base stations on 26 April 2018, five years after the last hardware update.
Apple sold Wi-Fi to normal people in 1999 with the AirPort, a base station that worked at a time when almost nothing else did. Then it stopped updating the Express in 2012 and the Extreme and Time Capsule in 2013, reassigned the engineering team in 2016, and confirmed the discontinuation on 26 April 2018 with stock sold off while supplies lasted. By then every broadband customer got a router free in the box, which is a difficult price to beat.
Standing in the archive
Rank 70 of 127 by lifespan. Apple AirPort outlasted 45% of everything else on file.
Cite this entry
"Apple AirPort." How Long It Lasted, https://www.howlongitlasted.com/thing/apple-airport.
Died nearby
- iPod Classic7 years · killed by a successor
- iPod nanoabout 11 years · killed by a successor
- iPod touchabout 14 years · killed by a successor
- Adobe Flash Playerabout 24 years · killed by a successor
- Amazon Dash Buttonabout 4 years · killed by a successor
Sources
- Apple officially discontinues AirPort router line, no plans for future hardware — 9to5Mac (archived)
- Apple Officially Discontinues AirPort Wireless Router Lineup — MacRumors (archived)
- Apple discontinues its AirPort WiFi routers — Engadget (archived)
Last checked by a human on 24 July 2026