I believe he’s wrong and they are not meaningfully rising in popularity. Hackintoshes started as soon as the Intel transition, and they do exist (I’ve seen a co

I believe he’s wrong and they are not meaningfully rising in popularity. Hackintoshes started as soon as the Intel transition, and they do exist (I’ve seen a couple personally, both built around the Leopard era when tools were mature and the desirability of iCloud/iMessage integration was lower.) Today there aren’t many people who need to push computing beyond the relatively affordable Mac Mini and iMac configurations. Most Hackintosh practitioners want Apple to release the “XMac,” a cheap and configurable desktop tower* and operate their Hackintosh in its stead. It’s a respectable hobby, though, like iOS jailbreaking or emulation, and for persistent people it does let them run MacOS on more powerful hardware than they could afford. * https://arstechnica.com/staff/2005/10/1676/ https://arstechnica.com/staff/2005/10/1676/