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If Apple was seriously concerned about hackintoshes they'd develop their own custom CPU that they owned and no one else had access to.
by mavhc 5y ago
If Apple was seriously concerned about hackintoshes they'd develop their own custom CPU that they owned and no one else had access to.
- zaptheimpaler 5y agoIf the government was seriously concerned about tracking people they'd manufacture a viral pandemic and put microchips in the vaccine. Is that a good reason to believe that COVID was created by the government? M1/Hackintosh - same reasoning, different example.
- microtonal 5y agoI think it is very obvious that this was not their motivation. Hobbyist hackintosh is barely a blip on the radar. They switched to their own CPU because Intel screwed up, plus they want to increase vertical integration. But of course, it is quite likely that once Apple kills x86_64 macOS, it's also the end of Hackintosh. Apple uses too many proprietary extensions (e.g. AMX) and custom hardware (neural engine, GPU, etc.) to make running macOS on generic ARM hardware easy.
- mavhc 5y agoIndeed, they did own 40% of ARM as a co-founder at one point. When iOS is 90% of your business you need to reduce the costs of the other 10%