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So they can use servers? And those people who write that software for those servers can test. You think iCloud is off Mac minis?
by flatiron 4y ago
So they can use servers? And those people who write that software for those servers can test.
You think iCloud is off Mac minis?
- oefrha 4y agoWell, in the old days Apple did use some Xserves.
- pabs3 4y agoI figured they would have an internal build of macOS for servers, seems like the logical thing to do.
- ravi-delia 4y agoI feel almost disappointed they don't at least run FreeBSD, but I guess it makes sense. They make a desktop OS, and most of the talent on the market has used Linux.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoIt seems cheaper to just sign a large service contract with a company for which building a server OS is the core competency. Apple is very much not an engineering-first company. They make very logical decisions from a business-first point of view.
- flatiron 4y agoThey don’t want to port all that software to a secret OS that isn’t supported upstream. Also much of apple, like I was, were contractors. So your there for a bit to do a thing. People know Linux so that’s what they use. Honestly much of what I did was on Amazon Linux 2 because it was just their own custom AMI on EC2