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It was for sure designed to bring the locked architecture and tight value-chain control from iOS into the macOS space, in a slow transition which doesn't aliena
by rickdeckard 5y ago
It was for sure designed to bring the locked architecture and tight value-chain control from iOS into the macOS space, in a slow transition which doesn't alienate the existing userbase (like the frog in a pot analogy).
For example, I don't expect them to address the situation with the Hackintosh market (people running macOS on custom PCs). They will simply fade-out OS-support for Intel CPU's, AMD GPUs and so on at one point, and then basically close the door behind all the M1/Mx users...
- gjsman-1000 5y agoThey never supported Hackintoshes, and you need to remember there was a 20-year period before Intel where hackintoshes weren't possible. Apple is closing something they never supported and that wasn't there for the two decades prior, so I can hardly fault them. For how well-known "hackintoshing" is, remember that the Mac has spent the majority of its existence without this ability.
- pram 5y agoThe description of Hackintosh as a “market” is pretty amusing
- rickdeckard 5y agoTo clarify: I didn't mean that they would/should "help" the Hackintosh community. Quite the opposite, when looking into it they don't seem to take a significant effort to shut it down for several years now. It probably also helped them at times, especially when they didn't offer powerful desktop machines and were at risk to have customers transition to another OS. But with the introduction of M1 I suspect that this is the solution for that Hackintosh "grey-market".