Another sad decision by Apple. My Airport Extreme and multiple Expresses worked great. Loved the Utility app to help configure them - handy little tool.
With Apple's resources the router division cannot have been a distraction, nor would not having it materially or even to any large extent, affect Apple's numbers. Maybe this reflects a retrenching mindset taking hold within Apple?
Until you need access to a feature that the latest version of the tool doesn't support, so you have to jump through hoops to find and download an old version and attempt to get it to run on a newer unsupported version of OS X. I see no good reason not to just provide a web interface which enables you to configure the router from any computer with a web browser.
I disagree. The Airport Utility was aggressively bad. Unless you had a setup that exactly matched their paint-by-numbers GUI, it presented a series of vague riddles to accomplish your task. What exactly were the UI metaphors it presented? 3 pretty pictures, right? What was with the hidden, right-click here, elements? A total fail, where a webapp would have been fine.
With Apple's resources the router division cannot have been a distraction, nor would not having it materially or even to any large extent, affect Apple's numbers. Maybe this reflects a retrenching mindset taking hold within Apple?