3 ms·
Apple has no moral obligation to enter the server space. Mac Minis aren’t designed for data center use. This is a hack. Apple was in the server space and they
by runjake 3y ago
Apple has no moral obligation to enter the server space.
Mac Minis aren’t designed for data center use. This is a hack.
Apple was in the server space and they were terrible at it[1]. Further, macOS is a terrible, inflexible server OS. Linux is king, for better or… well, for the better.
1. I worked for an organization that was part of a pilot into Apple’s enterprise push and I felt like it was more of a marketing effort than an honest attempt.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- _ph_ 3y agoI think it does. Apple wants people to use and support the Mac with software. That means that people need development hardware, here for running automated tests. Even if Apple isn't selling server hardware to end users (what I think would be great if they did), they should have some offerings for commercial vendors like here, Microsoft. At minimum, you should be able to order just the motherboards of a Mini, ideally, they would make slightly optimized versions of this.
- kevincox 3y agoNo, but I think they have some moral obligation to allow people to develop software for their platform. They license their compilers and software so that it isn't legal to run them on other hardware. If they just changed the license to not make it illegal. I'm sure someone would figure out how to make it work. Then you can run CI on real servers, build and test iOS apps on your Windows desktop.