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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by ogre_codes on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:00PM (#25561391)
> Because Apple really doesn't care about anything to do with developers.

Are you serious?

Apple's single biggest event of the year is a developer conference. They aren't putting on week-long events for video editors.

They also provided a bunch of Mac minis to Mac Stadium for OSS developers to build on.

They added virtualization to the M1 (it isn't on the A series) and have HyperKit built into the OS is all specifically for developers.

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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by judge2020 on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:44PM (#25561885)
> They also provided a bunch of Mac minis to Mac Stadium for OSS developers to build on.

Well, Apple isn't giving them away, but they do indeed sell them to Mac Stadium.

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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by ogre_codes on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:12PM (#25562181)
It's my understanding that Apple donated hardware to multiple projects. That said, I can't track down a link right now either so it's just my recollection.
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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by saagarjha on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:16AM (#25568444)
Virtualization is available on A14 but not made available to developers. (In fact, all of XNU runs in EL2.)
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