[ksec]

I seriously, seriously doubt that.

Apple has needs for serving 1+ Billion of its customers. IS&T has been known to be a complete pile of crap ( plenty of evidence on HN alone ). A dozens of hiring seems more to me like trying to fix things rather than compete. The will need hundreds if not thousands as bare minimum.

They have been pitting Azure against AWS and GCP against Azure to gain extremely favourable terms.

[minhazm]

They're already doing it somewhat with Xcode Cloud, which does remote builds in Apple's infrastructure[1]. They might not directly compete with AWS, Azure or GCP in products one to one, but it's not unreasonable to assume they will expand their cloud offerings in this space over time.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/