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Not sure a citation exists for such an assertion -- but I'm a decade deep and numerous production (profitable) iOS apps shipped without ever touching Apple hard

• AmericanChopper 7y ago
  I’m sure if it was indeed popular, there would be some way of demonstrating that. Aside from the fact that I have never seen one in my entire career as a consultant, working with hundreds of organisations, the reason this sounds ridiculous to me is that Apple has a long history of making very little effort to obstruct the hackintosh community. Which suggests very strongly that the community is too small for Apple to bother with. There are a few topics on HN that seem to bring out people claiming that incredibly niche interests are actually very common and popular. Apple is one of them. So I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that somebody making such an incredible claim should have at least some way of substantiating it.
  • jodrellblank 7y ago
    I’m sure if it was indeed popular, there would be some way of demonstrating that. Google Trends suggests that searches for 'Hackintosh' peaked around 2009 and have been steadily declining down to around a half since then. Searches for 'Ubuntu' dominate so much it makes the Hackintosh graph look flat by comparison, but Hackintosh seems about as popular as 'Manjaro' (Linux Distribution) currently is, fwiw: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=hackintosh,manjaro https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=hackinto...