Even if that was true (which I believe it is not), wouldn't that already constitute "interest in dealing with businesses"? They want businesses to buy iDevices and use them for business purposes. Whatever you think on this, you should perhaps rethink after taking a look at Apple's own reporting and their press releases concerning business and enterprise customers.
I think you may be wrong here. There is a consumerisation of the enterprise IT and Apple is happy to grab a big piece of that cake (and not unsuccessful) when it comes to push their devices into the business market. If they had no interest in dealing with businesses, they'd not invest in enabling companies to manage large fleets of Apple devices.
While AWS, GCP and Azure are all moving towards offering more higher level services(?), I think it is fair to say that when "competing with AWS" is on the table, people associate it with IaaS/PaaS offerings.
Providing more cloud services for the niche of mac developers is not "competing with AWS", is it?
I think it is more likely that we will see an Apple Coffee Machine.
I could see them utilizing their silicone expertises and some creative thinking to launch an espresso capsule subscription unlike what is currently available.
This, or any other first world problem that Phil might run into on a Sunday morning :)
Why would they choose to not focus their expertise on where they make metric tons of money already? What's more compelling about competing with AWS, Azure and GCP on IaaS margins than to keep on doing what works? I expect Apple to expand into more and more consumer products to augment their existing offering, not start something completely unrelated.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/apples-enterprise-evolutio...