Business Operating System - tightly integrated apps for Micro and Small business

No one here can predict what Apple will do.

You can suggest it to Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

(They do not, however, accept unsolicited ideas.)

There are hosting providers that offer mail, web, DNS, and related services. Including deploying numerous apps. The hosting provider I’m using has multiple CRMs, ERP systems, and customer support apps all available, as well as numerous other task-dedicated apps. The apps are not tightly or cross-integrated. Not past cPanel or similar for deployment.

Closest to what you want for integration and self-hosting is probably NextCloud, though that too depends on add-ons for specific activities such as CRMs.

As for history, Apple got out of the server business (web, mail, chat, DNS, etc, though with no library of add-on apps ever available) with the end of the macOS Server product. The server-focused version of the macOS Server app ended at macOS 10.13, though a similarly-named and very limited MDM app lingered on for a few more versions.

Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager are probably the closest Apple analogs on offer at present, and they’re very far from what you are asking about, and while they allow user management and app deployments and such, they don’t integrate user data across apps.

Suren_WRX wrote:

Will Apple ever fully support the Micro and Small business with a fully operable Business App system?

The answer you're looking for is "No".

Why do I need to run to disparate providers for even a website (sites, hosting, domain) and not have a tightly integrated productivity software with few business friendly apps in areas such as CRM ?

Does any company provide that anymore? Can you give examples from other vendors?

Wish Apple would invest in being the MSME darling as much as it invests in Hardware evolution.

To be honest, Apple's pretty hostile to other companies, even small ones. They are seen as competition, rather than partners.

Now in Apple's defence, many of those small companies are simply trying to scam Apple and its customers. Or, at best, trying to live large off Apple's coattails.

I run a business myself, and I totally understand Apple's perspective. I actively avoid any kind of business-focused products or marketing. Business customers are the absolute worst. They want a ton of up-front work, huge discounts, promises, all for some bidding process where they're just going through the motions before they give the contract to their buddies or whomever gave them the biggest kickback, all for a higher price than you were asking for. That's how business works.

It's consumers who are more honest customers. That's why Apple focuses its attention on them. If you do a good job with those consumer-oriented products, you might get some honest business sales too. And obviously, that works the same way on Apple's scale. But that consumter-to-business overflow market is really small. Can't make a living on that. Can barely make a living on any Mac software.