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You could build a hackintosh instead. Pain to get software set up just right but when it is it works great.
by rajlego 6y ago
You could build a hackintosh instead. Pain to get software set up just right but when it is it works great.
- llarsson 6y agoIt is not a technical problem, but a legal one. It is that they do not want to expose themselves by violating agreements with Apple. Do you want to be the genius that saved a few dollars on hardware with a Hackintosh only to get the company sued?
- rajlego 6y agoI hadn’t considered this at all mainly because I haven’t heard of apple taking legal actions against people promoting hackintosh related things and methods. Though I guess it could become a problem for a company.
- arvinsim 6y agoIt's only because most hackintoshers don't make money by selling them. It also takes a lot of time to setup so hackintoshing will never gain mainstream numbers.
- throwaway3563 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
- seba_dos1 6y agoExactly. If you don't care about Apple ToS, you can cross-compile on GNU/Linux just fine without ever touching macOS.
- speedgoose 6y agoIt's too time consuming and risky for a company.
- lostgame 6y agoThere is a large rate of failure and larger fix times for issues, as well.
- rajlego 6y agoI forget if there’s a better way to describe it but usually if there’s going to be a failure, it’ll be at the beginning (unless you’re constantly updating software which does have some risk)
- rajlego 6y agoIf it’s too risky I’d assume the company would have enough money to not have to resort to building hackintoshes
- happymellon 6y agoOf you are thinking of a hackintosh just to compile, then it would probably be easier to just virtualize it. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM