Like the Mac mini, you’d use your own existing mouse, display, and keyboard, and if you found you liked macOS, you might even be able to trade in a Mac Neo for credit toward the cost of a more powerful M-series Mac.
It’s also easy to imagine business users deploying these to support on-site office and admin functions as part of a wider Windows replacement scheme. Ultimately, it’s a move that would grow Apple’s share of the desktop OS market, which would in its own way bring more people into Apple’s wider ecosystem and the services it provides.
That’s not to say it’s necessarily going to happen. But if it did, it’s easy to paint a story like this, and it is important to recognize the extent to which Apple’s move to widen its addressable market this way would owe everything to Apple Silicon. It means that the cost of entering the Apple ecosystem continues its dramatic decline, making computers for the rest of us available to all of us.
