Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
by emeraldd on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:53PM
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I suspect they don't believe there is a market for them or at least not enough of a market to justify the development expense. I know they've tried producing a "server" in the past and even a server version of their operating system, but it didn't seem to go anywhere. Unless they had a way to meaningfully compete with Windows and Linux (really, linux) the only viable market I can see is for build systems, and that's pretty niche.
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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
by 908B64B197 on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:33PM
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With Servers you have to maintain a good supply chain and deal with institutional buyers. It's almost a parallels business to the rest of their offering. They won't get support at the genius bar...
Server OS seemed to be targeted at small businesses to run on a Mac Pro or Mac Mini connected to NAS and hosting internal applications. But it wasn't very different from regular OSX.