Hehe, you've brought this up just as my iPod failed to see my wifi. Again.
Does this on a regular basis. It's ability to see networks it completely arbitrary and has nothing to do with location. Meanwhile my Android phone picks things up with no issues whatsoever.
The reason I want the wifi? There's another free game within the people I follow for it, so thought I'd pick it up... Once the f'king thing see the wifi. Not like it's useful for music or video.
As to Apple and the server stuff? It just sounds more like "we made a marginal effort by pointing out that OS X has a unix history and expected the server market to flock to us like our desktop users do. Now that they haven't we're claiming we were never really interested."
In other words, another "if they don't come to us on their knees proclaiming us as the second coming, we're not interested in selling them over-priced things."
The normal Apple approach then.