The issue is that it's hard to turn that into a business. In the US, clearly a company like Github/Microsoft can't do that. You suggest finding a country that m

The issue is that it's hard to turn that into a business. In the US, clearly a company like Github/Microsoft can't do that. You suggest finding a country that might be more permissive. The issue there is that there are a lot of treaties that most countries have signed up to that protect IP like WTO membership or the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Maybe those wouldn't prevent what you're suggesting, but they probably do. There are some countries outside that, but not a lot and some of them are probably non-starters like North Korea or Iran. And who would your customers be? You won't get US or EU companies wanting to use your Hackintosh Cloud. They know the jeopardy they'd get in if they were building Hackintoshes. Renting them probably isn't much better. What happens when Apple figures out that a company has been building their iOS apps on the Hackintosh Cloud? Plus, if you were to create a Hackintosh Cloud that got any traction, it would be a constant moving target as Apple tried to foil your plans. What happens when the next security update also has something that makes your machines not boot? Sure, you find a workaround over the next month and in the meantime your customers find that your service isn't worth it. Companies pay a fortune for things to be reliable. Finally, how much could you really undercut genuine M1 pricing? Scaleway will rent me an M1 Mac mini for €80/mo (€0.11/hour) or an M2 Pro for €173. You're going to need to pay really smart people to keep breaking Apple's attempts against you. Scaleway just buys some Mac minis. Plus, the ARM processors you're buying won't have the performance of Apple's chips and might even have slightly different behavior for things like memory ordering. Maybe that won't matter most of the time, but if I'm paying for a build cloud, I probably don't want to be second guessing it. When it comes to cloud services, I think buying genuine Macs isn't really the issue. I mean, Github is charging $350/mo for mediocre 2-core x86 runners. They're charging nearly $7,000/mo for an M1 runner. If you wanted to compete with Github's runners, you could just rent Scaleway servers at €80/mo and still hugely undercut Github's pricing as long as you got a bit of usage. At half of Github's price, you'd need about 17 hours of usage per month to cover Scaleway's price - less than 2.5% utilization.