Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
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Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
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Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#2How would one deploy a iOS app using this service?
It seems interesting since i don't own a Mac and am interested in iOS Development, but don't want to fork out the cash for a mac mini or something similar.
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#3Cool for people who want to try things out / test on macs, but complicated pricing and hassle of key management would put me off using this as a real dev platform.
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#4How would one deploy a iOS app using this service? It seems interesting since i don't own a Mac and am interested in iOS Development, but don't want to fork out the cash for a mac mini or something similar.
That's a great question. I imagine you wouldn't be able debug on a device with Xcode, and that could be a hindrance to development. But you could use a service like TestFlight to deploy builds to your iOS device. Ultimately I think this would work for trying out iOS/Mac development, and if you decide you like it after a few months you'd get a Mac for more permanent development.
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#5How would one deploy a iOS app using this service? It seems interesting since i don't own a Mac and am interested in iOS Development, but don't want to fork out the cash for a mac mini or something similar.
You'd need to import certificates every time you booted the VM (I assume) which would get old pretty quickly.
Edit - looks like there is persistent on-VM storage, from the homepage: "In additional to local hard drive space..."
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#6It's ridiculous that this service has plans that allows you to "log in from 9am to 5pm, max 5 hours per day". It looks like it's 1999 all over again where you have online services that are only available during certain hours because the servers are rebooted or turned off every day. This is not "cloud"-like at all, and is especially bad when you don't live in the same timezone.
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#7What a novel idea. I have many friends without Macs who would be interested in this. (I am a little curious about the logistics though.)
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#9Anyone tried them? What the interaction lag/jitter is like?
(edit) Also, it seems there might be an issue with using their Macs for developing commercial software. Who knows where the contents of these Macs will end up being copied or backed up.
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#10It's ridiculous that this service has plans that allows you to "log in from 9am to 5pm, max 5 hours per day". It looks like it's 1999 all over again where you have online services that are only available during certain hours because the servers are rebooted or turned off every day. This is not "cloud"-like at all, and is especially bad when you don't live in the same timezone.
It's ridiculous that this service has plans that allows you to "log in from 9am to 5pm, max 5 hours per day"
To be fair, they offer "Anytime" plans which cost more, but let you log in any time you like :)