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Weird limitation. Hopefully Apple updates this.
by nnx 6y ago
Weird limitation. Hopefully Apple updates this.
- lokimedes 6y agoThey still think of themselves as a hardware firm, this restrains usage elasticity to a level where system hardware scaling is a dominant cost driver rather than system performance. Besides the inefficiencies of physical space at AWS sites, it is also a fine business for the cloud provider as it generates a less volatile usage pattern than normal. As Apple is acting as a monopolist by dictating the same terms to everyone, they further remove any competitive advantage of providing anything else.
- pjmlp 6y agoThey are mostly an hardware firm that packages a nice experience in the box. Nope, 12% of market share isn't a monopoly.
- caspper69 6y agoHow about being the only way to even build an application for 50% of the U.S. mobile market?
- pjmlp 6y ago99% of said apps are actually nothing more than CRUD Web forms, or crap games easily done with WebGL + WebAssembly, so no it isn't the only way.
- caspper69 6y agoI think you are missing the point intentionally. You can't run those apps on an Apple iPhone, but I suspect you knew this. It's ok to take the literal definition of the word monopoly and take it to its logical conclusion, I suppose. The U.S. government will not do that, however.
- pjmlp 6y agoI surely can, given that part of my job is to develop mobile Web apps.
- imtringued 6y agoIf you don't like it then leave. That's how Apple operates. I still can't comprehend why people insist on licking Apple's shoe soles but then complain that it tastes awful.
- headmelted 6y agoI vividly remember a video interview with Steve Jobs from a long time back when he was clear that Apple is not a hardware firm, it’s a software firm, and admitting that it took him far too long to realise that. So this is hard to defend other than gouging.
- wmf 6y agoThey just updated it two weeks ago. There's no reason they would change their mind again quickly.
- tootie 6y agoThey do this very intentionally. If they wanted to be available on AWS they'd allow OSX to run in a VM which they don't.
- Lt_Riza_Hawkeye 6y agoThey do allow OSX to be run in a VM..... but only if the hypervisor is on Apple hardware :P And under the new EULA they don't allow renting a VM, only a device in its entirety