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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by ketamine__ on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:39PM (#25561811)
Am I wrong to think there are workloads that can only be run on Mac? Seems like a competitive advantage.
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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by Macha on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:40PM (#25561832)
The only workloads that can only be run on a mac are those which are Apple specific, such as building/testing iOS apps.
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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by heavyset_go on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:34PM (#25562392)
Anything that requires Xcode to build. Depending on what's being built, if you're developing a cross-platform or Mac app, you might need a Mac somewhere in your pipeline.

Unfortunately, Apple makes it somewhat uneconomical to use Macs in small bursts, as their license requires that Macs are leased for at least 24 hours.

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