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This is exactly the opposite of hackintosh. A hackintosh is "pirated" Apple software running on non-Apple hardware. These are people who have bought genuine Ap

This is exactly the opposite of hackintosh. A hackintosh is "pirated" Apple software running on non-Apple hardware. These are people who have bought genuine Apple hardware - putting money in Apple's pocket. Then they want to write some custom software for their computer. I don't see how this threatens Apple in any way. The intersection between general Apple users and those who want to run "a remix of Arch Linux ARM" on their $1000 hardware has to be pretty small anyway. Actually it could open up a new market for Apple. I for one am quite impressed by Apple hardware, but have minimal interest in running their software. If Asahi becomes stable enough, I would seriously consider buying Apple. Your second point is a good one, however.

imiric 4y ago
True, doing this doesn't threaten them, and it could result in a negligible amount of devices sold for this purpose, but I wouldn't be surprised if they saw this as equivalent to jailbreaking, and thus as some kind of breach of the ToS you implicitly agree on purchase. Though Apple hasn't historically prosecuted individuals for such things, so this likely won't happen. But it's even less likely they'll officially support, advertise, or even recognize this project in any way.
- Wowfunhappy 4y ago
  It would be the equivalent of Jailbreaking if Apple explicitly built checkm8 into the iPhone.
- nicoburns 4y ago
  > I wouldn't be surprised if they saw this as equivalent to jailbreaking The difference is that jailbreaking compromises the security of iOS. Whereas some clever apple engineer has setup the M1 MacBooks such that each OS is completely isolated from each other (enforced by dis encryption and the Secure Enclave). The only thing a rogue linux install could do is delete macOS entirely. But there would be little incentive to do so. Installing malware or stealing data is completely blocked.

imiric 4y ago

True, doing this doesn't threaten them, and it could result in a negligible amount of devices sold for this purpose, but I wouldn't be surprised if they saw this as equivalent to jailbreaking, and thus as some kind of breach of the ToS you implicitly agree on purchase. Though Apple hasn't historically prosecuted individuals for such things, so this likely won't happen. But it's even less likely they'll officially support, advertise, or even recognize this project in any way.

Wowfunhappy 4y ago
It would be the equivalent of Jailbreaking if Apple explicitly built checkm8 into the iPhone.
nicoburns 4y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if they saw this as equivalent to jailbreaking The difference is that jailbreaking compromises the security of iOS. Whereas some clever apple engineer has setup the M1 MacBooks such that each OS is completely isolated from each other (enforced by dis encryption and the Secure Enclave). The only thing a rogue linux install could do is delete macOS entirely. But there would be little incentive to do so. Installing malware or stealing data is completely blocked.