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"Request access for the preview." It's been nearly two years since the Apple Silicon kits first shipped, and the only instances you can purchase from AWS are m
by AaronFriel 4y ago
"Request access for the preview."
It's been nearly two years since the Apple Silicon kits first shipped, and the only instances you can purchase from AWS are metal instances, at approx. $10k/year/instance.
That's not accessible to open source/free software projects and not affordable or efficient to utilize for small projects and highly intermittent workloads like CI.
- dev_tty01 4y ago$10K/year. Wow. How does that math make any sense?
- AaronFriel 4y agoAnd the minimum lease time is 24 hours, making it inaccessible to hobbyists or on-demand, intermittent work. I wish MacOS licensing were available for Graviton and ARMv8 generic, that would be incredible. It isn't, and the costs to support Apple's platform is a substantial barrier for many projects.
- greedo 4y agoRidiculous. You can buy an M1 Mac mini for $699 (MSRP) and often for $599 from resellers. To develop a Mac or iOS app, you need a Mac, so you're not spending more. Hobbyists? I spend $700/year to have access to a maker space. I spend that much on woodworking tools annually (if not more). Hobbyist doesn't mean free.