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If you have a giant pile of data already in AWS, that you need to use on a Mac for a short time, it may make more sense to rent a Mac next to all your existing data, rather than paying exorbitant transfer fees to get the data to a Mac elsewhere.

AWS's transfer fees are a massive lock-in.



except this would not be the case. we just need M1 instance from Scaleway or whoever provide it as runner / job executor. not much data egress for those traffic.


That's a big assumption on how EVERY company that needs an M1 and uses AWS uses it for


The most common use case for a Mac in a business setting is for building iOS applications.


You may have to define business.

Account managers, web developers, python developers, Julia developers, sysadmin, netsec.

All those areas are riddled with Mac.


But none of that code runs on Mac alone. Even if they're developing on a Max their python or Julia or whatever code that they want to run on the cloud will run on Linux. The only real use case out there is building/testing iOS/Mac applications. The only other one I can think of is a Mac only video editing or animation software that you'd prefer to render somewhere besides your laptop.




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