I wonder who precicely this is targeted for.
The concept is interesting, but doesn't everyone who develops for macos already have a mac?
Or is this actually an economic path with respect to cloud computing?
Maybe, but is everyone who develops for OSX going to have an M1 in 2021-2022? I just bought a refurbished Intel-based Macbook Air (for just $50 shy of what a new M1 Air would have cost) due to concerns about virtualization software compatibility. People developing software to run on OSX may not want to invest in M1 machines this early, and small-to-midsized companies who rely on their Mac farms to run test suites etc. may not want to duplicate their infrastructure just to validate their software on M1, when they can perhaps meet their needs by using elastic M1 services.
Im sure these days it's not hard enough to find smth with equilavent processing power in that price range
Maybe even direct contact with hetzner could help you out these days(they stopped offering them cause of abuse)
And if it's not a gpu bound task but badly concurrently cpu tasks Then maybe a game server specific dedicated hosting (they use consumer CPUs with uo to 5+ghz single core performance) wouldn't also be a lot of money
N if its a good concurrency task then the amd CPU offering of hetzner beats all(high memory, insanely fast iops, lots of core) , and has a offering for 5950x these days
The M1 actually beats it in single core performance, and is quite a bit faster at running JavaScript for that headless browser due to design optimizations.
Beyond that sort of thing I am mystified