alt Hacker NewsThe option is you have to buy another machine. There are mac ec2 instances and several mac cloud hosts that all would abuse this if they could, instead to stay compliant they buy more machines.
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Well yeah and Apple wouldn’t be able to abuse its pseudo-monopolistic market position. That would be so sad…
I tried to launch a MacOS instance on EC2 recently (on my work account), and was blocked.
So I asked the IT dept and they said it's stupidly expensive to run a MacOS instance on EC2, and that they would just send me a Macbook Pro instead.
I wish I were kidding.
And thus they need a massive datacenter full of systems, rather than a pile of paid licenses.
And macOS remains a toy for use only by individuals that is a massive pain for developers to support.
(where "abuse" means using the hardware to run software)