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This ship already sailed before the Intel Mac days. Apple shutdown all the Mac clones, stopped releasing details about the hardware, etc.
by cpuguy83 6y ago
This ship already sailed before the Intel Mac days.
Apple shutdown all the Mac clones, stopped releasing details about the hardware, etc.
- skissane 6y agoI don’t think Mac clones were really comparable. Mac clones were a threat to Apple’s hardware business. Running alternative operating systems on Apple hardware is not a threat to Apple’s hardware business. Apple has been willing to support non-Apple operating systems on their hardware before - Windows via Boot Camp, MkLinux. (Mobile is a different case, because allowing third party operating systems might threaten their control of software distribution and its tie-in with the hardware; that isn’t the case on Macs since Apple does not mandate their App Store on macOS.)
- cpuguy83 6y agoRight, but this also pretty effectively killed off other OS's on pre-Intel Macs. Look at the BeOS story. They ported to x86 because Apple stopped sharing hardware details.