They are likely scared of people who would run MacOS virtual desktop farms, without also buying an appropriate number of Apple machines.
That’s what I would be worried about if my primary source of income was hardware sales.
That’s what I would be worried about if my primary source of income was hardware sales.
Currently services like Github Actions painfully and inefficiently rack thousands of Mac Minis and run 2 VMs on each to stay within the limits. They probably wouldn't mind paying a fee to run more VMs on Mac Studios instead.
Even a 256GB model would run a load of 16GB VMs
They don't care what you want to do with the hardware you own.
It’s MacOS VMs that we want to run.
Imagine thinking everyone who buys a Mac and runs VMs wants to run heaps of macOS VMs.
arm64 hardware is cheap, x64 hardware is cheap and both of those can run as many Linux or Windows VMs as you have RAM to run.
Why buy a second extra machine to do testing of multi machine infrastructure configurations when my workstation can run the VMs locally?
For others? I don't know that's why I think it's ridiculous to assume everyone else's use case is the same as your own.