This is such a left-field comparison. One H100 costs $25,000, whereas one Macbook Pro/iMac/iOS device costs roughly a tenth of that. It's not at all surprising that it's cheaper to rent something that has CapEx costs 2 orders of magnitude less than that of 8xH100 ($200k for the GPUs alone).

I think the point was a $4-$8/hr VM is pretty small potatoes compared to other common corporate expenses.

The H100 was a terrible example to support that point because it has a much better (rent vs buy) value proposition.

Depends on the kind of trouble you are having.

Many corner stores can fix a smashed iPhone screen.