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> Apple should bite the bullet and license macOS for third-party hardware Please, please, no. Presumably you've never gone through this particular form of hell
by jen729w 10y ago
> Apple should bite the bullet and license macOS for third-party hardware
Please, please, no. Presumably you've never gone through this particular form of hell:
1. You have a [Toshiba|Dell|HP] laptop. You've upgraded something. You need [graphics|sound|network] drivers.
2. You go to [Toshiba|Dell|HP].com to get those drivers. You navigate to the "Support" page for your laptop model.
3. You - you, the user - are presented with options. Do you want the AMD network drivers, or the Intel? Err. What? Why should I know? I typed in the model number of my machine. You, the vendor, should know what's in it! But you don't.
This is infuriating madness. It's one of the many things I hate about the Wintel ecosystem. Opening up the Mac leads us down that path. Please no.
- Recurecur 10y agoIn the case of Hackintosh, the easiest builds use already supported hardware. The reference builds on tonymacx86.com need very little if any tweaking. There are also high quality third party drivers, for instance Creative Labs, Logitech and NVIDIA Web Drivers. If things move more to using USB C and Thunderbolt, that situation will only get better and better. In short, it's already a non-issue.
- aianus 10y agoThey could license it for specific models only and ship the necessary drivers with the OS just as they do now.
- marcoperaza 10y agoThose days are over for PCs. Drivers are automatically installed by Windows Update.