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Apple has a pretty clear track record as far as this goes: they largely ignore it unless it’s attached to a business model effectively reselling their (free as
by eyelidlessness 4y ago
Apple has a pretty clear track record as far as this goes: they largely ignore it unless it’s attached to a business model effectively reselling their (free as in beer) software. They’ve made several gestures of support of being open to reasonable software flexibility around macOS and Mac hardware in principle, and sometimes materially contribute. Most recently they indirectly aided development of Linux on M* devices, released updates to Boot Camp, and have continued to produce freely downloadable OS images for so long I won’t bother characterizing the time span.
Apple has a lot of marks against them in terms of overall attitude towards software freedom, and hardware moreso, but they evidently don’t give a damn about a Hackintosh unless you’re selling them.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoThere's even been a lot of iOS/Mac apps developed and submitted on hackintoshes. Apple can probably pick out hackintosh users pretty easily (a few years back, one of their engineers griped about logs coming from hackintoshes being junked up and effectively useless), but up until now have not chosen to act on that, probably because they only stand to lose by kicking these users out of their ecosystem.