> I can't think of a single major cloud provider that offers Mac hardware based k8s nor why you'd want to pay the premium over commodity hardware
If you're a dev team that creates Mac/iOS/iPad/etc apps, you might want Mac hardware in your CI/CD stack. Cloud providers do offer virtual Macs for this purpose.
If you're a really big company (eg. a top-10 app, eg. Google) you might have many teams that push lots of apps or app updates. You might have a CI/CD workflow that needs to scale to a cluster of Macs.
Also, I'm pretty sure apple at least partially uses Apple hardware in the serving flow (eg. "Private Cloud Compute") and would have an interest in making this work.
Oh, and it'd be nice to be able to better sand-box untrusted software running on my personal dev machine.
> uses Apple hardware in the serving flow (eg. "Private Cloud Compute")
Private Cloud Compute is different hardware: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
> The root of trust for Private Cloud Compute is our compute node: custom-built server hardware that brings the power and security of Apple silicon to the data center, with the same hardware security technologies used in iPhone, including the Secure Enclave and Secure Boot. We paired this hardware with a new operating system: a hardened subset of the foundations of iOS and macOS
I would cal this "Apple Hardware" even if its not the same thing you can buy at an Apple Store.