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Is it allowed? Legally maybe not. Really it is on Apple to attempt to prevent this. Not on the hacker. There isn't many ways an OS vendor and prevent their pr

Is it allowed? Legally maybe not. Really it is on Apple to attempt to prevent this. Not on the hacker. There isn't many ways an OS vendor and prevent their product from being virtualized. If Apple was smart they'd maybe clean up OSX to have a decent cloud offering. But alias nope.

andoon 10y ago
A cloud offering of OS X? Who would need something like that?
- cozzyd 10y ago
  Something like that could potentially be useful for me to see if the scientific software I write/use on Linux is likely to compile/work on various Mac OS X devices (right now I just count on others to complain when things don't work). And there are plenty of use cases: * an iOS development offering (as long as iOS development is restricted to Mac OS X) * security research * integration with software not available on Linux (e.g. something Photoshoppy) * hardcore fanboys who can't stomach using anything not ordained by Apple
- chatmasta 10y ago
  There's lots of cool stuff you could automate if you could provision OS X on demand. For example, you could offer an "iMessage proxy service" that proxies text messages it receives through your iMessage account by calling the iMessage app as a black box in the OS X instance. If you want to do this yourself, you can do it of course but your OS X will need to be running 24/7. Fwiw the same is true if you could virtualize iOS.
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- tyingq 10y ago
  I rented one just to make sure my site redesign worked well in Safari. I assume others do it to check OSX compatibility, or maybe to try Swift out in it's native environment, etc. It's attractive because I can rent it when I need it, versus buying a Mac (or copy of OSX) I'll only use occasionally.
cowsandmilk 10y ago
there are cloud offerings of OS X. Whether you consider them decent is another matter, but it is legal and is available.
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andoon 10y ago

A cloud offering of OS X? Who would need something like that?

cozzyd 10y ago
Something like that could potentially be useful for me to see if the scientific software I write/use on Linux is likely to compile/work on various Mac OS X devices (right now I just count on others to complain when things don't work). And there are plenty of use cases: * an iOS development offering (as long as iOS development is restricted to Mac OS X) * security research * integration with software not available on Linux (e.g. something Photoshoppy) * hardcore fanboys who can't stomach using anything not ordained by Apple
chatmasta 10y ago
There's lots of cool stuff you could automate if you could provision OS X on demand. For example, you could offer an "iMessage proxy service" that proxies text messages it receives through your iMessage account by calling the iMessage app as a black box in the OS X instance. If you want to do this yourself, you can do it of course but your OS X will need to be running 24/7. Fwiw the same is true if you could virtualize iOS.
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tyingq 10y ago
I rented one just to make sure my site redesign worked well in Safari. I assume others do it to check OSX compatibility, or maybe to try Swift out in it's native environment, etc. It's attractive because I can rent it when I need it, versus buying a Mac (or copy of OSX) I'll only use occasionally.

cowsandmilk 10y ago

there are cloud offerings of OS X. Whether you consider them decent is another matter, but it is legal and is available.

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