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by handrous 1665 days ago
Mac automation for things like CI is a pain in the ass (at least for small businesses) and their virtualization story for e.g. older version of the OS blows, despite having had a built-in hypervisor for a really long time.

"Load this specific OS, install these other programs, download some data, get it to this overall state, then run this script and send the output somewhere else, then destroy it when you're done" is actually a pretty big pain to do with macOS, without paying someone. Not that rentable M1 Macs solve that problem, exactly, but rentable, managed Macs in general can be useful for this, when you're renting from places with the automation in place to do easy virtualization or re-imaging.