What's a serious use case for this?
Automated testing using browsers on target operating systems as well as other testing that requires the target operating system. CI/CD pipelines using Mac build tools is another.
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
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#22Interesting. The deciding factor for our family when buying a Mac or Windows 10 device for my wife’s small business was actually my need to upload iOS apps for review by apple. I’m an after hours hobby developer, and use a windows desktop. It’s powerful and has all the tooling I require. And it supports all the games I want to play from the steam store. So - I think apple will lose a little bit of business from peopl…
How are you developing iOS apps without xcode?
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#23with everything else going on maybe we'll see virtualbox guest additions for macOS
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#24Interesting. The deciding factor for our family when buying a Mac or Windows 10 device for my wife’s small business was actually my need to upload iOS apps for review by apple. I’m an after hours hobby developer, and use a windows desktop. It’s powerful and has all the tooling I require. And it supports all the games I want to play from the steam store. So - I think apple will lose a little bit of business from peopl…
Yeah, I was about to buy an Apple laptop since I also have been doing more and more cross-platform app development. Didn't like borrowing others' laptops and doing the laborious process of switching to my icloud profile just to upload some apps to the app store.
I'm definitely out now. I was never the target audience for Apple products anyways so maybe they're not too worried about this
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#25Amazon is announcing a new thing every week at this rate.
Dedicated servers is not a "new thing".
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#26> The instances feature an 8th generation, 6-core Intel Core i7 (Coffee Lake) processor For those wondering
> EC2 Mac instances with the Apple M1 chip are already in the works, and planned for 2021. Also for those wondering
Woah! Are they adding the M1 chip to/in their datacenter servers/blades?
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#27MacOS AMI images, EBS disks, VPC networking, 10gbps ENA. Bare metal only, Intel available now, M1 coming soon. This is another game changer.
The post says they’re based on Mac Minis, but also use AWS Nitro. Is this custom AWS specific hardware?
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#28I can't seem to find pricing for this - anyone understand AWS better than me?
It's not listed on their dedicated host pricing page at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/pricing/ , and if I go through the web console to create an instance, I'm prompted to create a Mac dedicated host without any indication of how much I'd be paying.
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#29Interesting. The deciding factor for our family when buying a Mac or Windows 10 device for my wife’s small business was actually my need to upload iOS apps for review by apple. I’m an after hours hobby developer, and use a windows desktop. It’s powerful and has all the tooling I require. And it supports all the games I want to play from the steam store. So - I think apple will lose a little bit of business from peopl…
How are you developing iOS apps without xcode?
You only need it for compiling. There are plenty of cross platform frameworks that dont require to develop with xcode - and that's good in my opinion.
I built all my apps this way and faced the same problem as OP - so had to buy a Mac mini. It was the cheapest option ~8 years ago and I still use it today for the same purpose - just for compiling. I assume there are probably more of us.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> EC2 Mac instances with the Apple M1 chip are already in the works, and planned for 2021. Also for those wondering
Woah! Are they adding the M1 chip to/in their datacenter servers/blades?
If the current offering is Mac Minis, chances are Amazon has built an industrial grade version of what https://www.macstadium.com/ offers, and have racks with tons of Mac Minis, probably with custom ducting for A/C and so forth.