I really wish Apple would relax the restrictions on where you can install macOS. I understand that they don't want to commit the resources to support running macOS on any arbitrary number of hardware combinations out there today for physical machines, but as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any technical grounds for restricting its use in VMs outside of macOS hosts (please correct me if I'm mistaken).
The only actual restriction they have is DSMOS. Other than that, the rest of restrictions are just because of their own implementation of things like EFI, etc
Just by using the Clover bootloader + FakeSMC.kext (to bypass DSMOS) you can boot... if your system is supported. You can't blame them for not making drivers for everything, taking into account they control the hardware they sell.
If apple would allow hackintosh, then they would probably face competition from companies producing hackintosh laptops. It would be like rolex started allowing fake watches.
Clones weren't the ones that almost killed Apple. Apple was the one that almost killed Apple. Ran itself into a ground by a guy whose previous experience was selling flavoured sugar water.
The Apple business model is based on marketing a carefully crafted user-experience founded on the tight integration of hardware and software. They are primarily a hardware company. Allowing their operating systems to run on arbitrary devices could result in less Apple hardware being sold.
They learned the lesson from how IBM failed to maintain its 'walled garden' around the original IBM PC by neglecting to take ownership of DOS, which allowed their market to be swamped by PC clones, usually technically superior, all running DOS.
I would more prefer they get more reasonable with their desktop offerings with regards to features and pricing. their SSD upgrades are still ridiculous and having to buy the top model just to have a video card choice is by itself not a choice
There is the business side, it would be stupid for Apple to allow VM's on hardware that is not from Apple or installing OS X on other hardware because it would drive sales of Macs down.
Why buy an Apple computer if I can develop for iOS in my X86 machine?
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I really wish Apple would relax the restrictions on where you can install macOS. I understand that they don't want to commit the resources to support running macOS on any arbitrary number of hardware combinations out there today for physical machines, but as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any technical grounds for restricting its use in VMs outside of macOS hosts (please correct me if I'm mistaken).
The only actual restriction they have is DSMOS. Other than that, the rest of restrictions are just because of their own implementation of things like EFI, etc
Just by using the Clover bootloader + FakeSMC.kext (to bypass DSMOS) you can boot... if your system is supported. You can't blame them for not making drivers for everything, taking into account they control the hardware they sell.
If apple would allow hackintosh, then they would probably face competition from companies producing hackintosh laptops. It would be like rolex started allowing fake watches.
We do have a precedent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone Radius machines were great!
And tha clones almost killed Apple, which is why it was the first thing Steve Jobs killed after his return to Apple.
Clones weren't the ones that almost killed Apple. Apple was the one that almost killed Apple. Ran itself into a ground by a guy whose previous experience was selling flavoured sugar water.
I was specifically referring to installation in VMs, not physical machines.
The Apple business model is based on marketing a carefully crafted user-experience founded on the tight integration of hardware and software. They are primarily a hardware company. Allowing their operating systems to run on arbitrary devices could result in less Apple hardware being sold.
They learned the lesson from how IBM failed to maintain its 'walled garden' around the original IBM PC by neglecting to take ownership of DOS, which allowed their market to be swamped by PC clones, usually technically superior, all running DOS.
I would more prefer they get more reasonable with their desktop offerings with regards to features and pricing. their SSD upgrades are still ridiculous and having to buy the top model just to have a video card choice is by itself not a choice
There is the business side, it would be stupid for Apple to allow VM's on hardware that is not from Apple or installing OS X on other hardware because it would drive sales of Macs down.
Why buy an Apple computer if I can develop for iOS in my X86 machine?