You can't rent them for less than 24 hours.

Yes, but my point is that they won't be used every day. I used to work in a dev shop that had to compile 20+ applications every month or so. Our automated mac/build box, would require poking and resurrecting every other time it was used. This would have saved us a fortune.

> That's a deliberately bad headline. The vast majority of these will launch, build an iOS binary, save and quit within an hour. The other 5% will be people testing an app.

Headline is spot-on. Minimum rent is a day per Apple's terms of use.

Discussion of this can be found from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25262303

You have to pay for 24 hours on every start up.