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In my opinion this is a step towards the Apple cloud hosting. They have Xcode cloud. The $4B contract with Amazon ends, and it’s highly profitable. Build a c
by jbverschoor 1y ago
In my opinion this is a step towards the Apple cloud hosting.
They have Xcode cloud.
The $4B contract with Amazon ends, and it’s highly profitable.
Build a container, deploy on Apple, perhaps with access to their CPU’s
- paxys 1y agoIt's quite a stretch to go from Apple launching container support for macOS to "they are going to compete with AWS". Especially considering Apple's own server workloads and data storage are mostly on GCP.
- n2d4 1y agoIt's still virtualization, so it'll necessarily be (slightly) slower than just running Linux natively. I don't think Apple's hardware makes up for that, certainly not at the price point at which they sell it.
- jbverschoor 1y agoCompared to EC2? You've got to be kidding me.
- slroger 1y agoYeah that would be great. I dont understand why they dont explore this option