> Container images are the standard way to package cloud software today.

Shame there's no macos native container system or way to make one (my understanding is the kernel isolation primitives are not there)

It has to be coming.

Plenty of work done on virtualization, and you can see the VR and GenAI roadmaps playing out to the point where they want devs building for the Apple ecosystem to be able to run stuff securely in cloud, which means they will want a cloud offering to compete, which means they'll want their own container runtime with macOS APIs but in Apple's DCs.

This is an interesting first step though - it means devs who now want to build something that talks to cloud functionality in AWS or GCP have the option to stay in a single language. If it gets traction, you can imagine they'll accelerate investment.

Yes. I speculate they are actually working on this internally but I have no proof (they must have thought about it!). All the advances in the virtualization they are currently doing makes me think they will eventually release a built in container technology.