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> I can make a bootable Linux disk on Windows, and a bootable Windows disk on Linux Have you ever noticed how Apple considers Macs a separate platform from PCs
by Toutouxc 6y ago
> I can make a bootable Linux disk on Windows, and a bootable Windows disk on Linux
Have you ever noticed how Apple considers Macs a separate platform from PCs? Not as in "Windows or Linux or macOS on a computer", but as in "macOS on a Mac, or anything you want on a PC".
They don't want you to make a bootable macOS disk on Linux, because Macs and PCs are not supposed to be friends. Like PlayStation and Xbox, their hardware is similar and from the outside they both look like general purpose computers, but they're different platforms and they're not friends.
You can run macOS on generic PC hardware (Hackintoshes) and you can run Windows or Linux on Mac hardware, but that's mostly a byproduct of the platforms being similar.
You can disagree with Mac not being a PC and not being an open general computing platform, you can choose not to buy them, use them or develop for them, but I don't think it's a difficult concept to understand that Apple doesn't sell, support or care about PCs.
- CogitoCogito 6y agoYour original post said you didn't understand the outrage. You then explain how Apple goes out of their way to unnecessarily inconvenience the user by forcing them to have multiple Macs. I can't understand why you don't understand the outrage...
- vbezhenar 6y agoI can flash any iOS device using iTunes for Windows. I don't see this situation as fundamentally different.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago"Apple considers Macs a separate platform from PCs?" Apple might consider paying taxes optional, or the moon to be made of cheese. But why should any of us care or be bound by that? "and PCs are not supposed to be friends." Wtf does this even mean, how is it helpfull or provable?