Apple has exactly the same business model as Gillete – they sell razors (hardware) in order to sell razorblades (accessories, software, music, icloud, their appstore cut, etc.). Yes, contrary to popular opinion Apple is not a hardware company. Why? Because it threatens their actual business model. They move mountains to kill that off at every opportunity. They certainly don’t encourage it, but they are perfectly happy ignoring it because it is no skin off their back.Ĭontrast that with jailbreaking iphones – where ironically Apple actually does get the hardware sale. They could quite easily put a stop to it, but they don’t bother. As long as it isn’t being commercialized it is nothing but upside for them. Do you know how many times Apple has introduced counter-measures designed to stop them from working? Zero. People have been running hackintoshes quite effortlessly for at least 5 years now. If they sold a version of the Mac Pro with a consumer level gaming GPU for a decent price I would buy it (and forego internal expansion) – but they don’t. Apple simply doesn’t make such a machine at this time. I simply want a small mini-tower with good performance, internal expansion, and a gaming capable GPU.

I would happily buy a machine from them if they sold what I want (or anything even close to it). I don’t feel the least bit like I am taking advantage of or defrauding Apple, they make plenty of money off of me. If you actually asked people who are running hackintoshes I think you would find most of them are like me – they run them because they want to use OSX on a piece of hardware that has a feature set they cannot get from what Apple sells (unfortunately). I have a 2014 Macbook Air, a 2011 Mac Mini, 2 iPads, 5 iphones in all (family of 5). Yes, technically you may be “defrauding” Apple by doing this, but reality is the vast majority of people running hackintoshs actually do own a Mac, many of them (like me) own more than one. I think your being a bit myopic about it – not everything is black and white. No, what everyone is saying to me, is that is fine to defraud Apple in hardware sales just because you happen to sometime in your customer life to have bought an Apple system.

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