Subj : Re: MacOS
To   : Nightfox
From : Ennev
Date : Thu Dec 21 2017 04:36 pm


> There is the "hackintosh" community who have been hacking OS X/MacOS to
> install on non-Mac PCs.  It works if you follow their guides and buy
> compatible hardware to build a PC.  I can understand Apple's strategy of
> not wanting to support tons of hardware, but I also wouldn't mind seeing
> more of an alternative in the PC OS market.  There used to be more OS
> alternatives back in the day, when OS/2 was around and there were others
> coming up such as BeOS. If Apple allowed MacOS to be installed on other
> PCs, I wonder how much revenue they'd lose from hardware sales and how much
> revenue they could get from selling MacOS by itself.

Actually with the way things are shaping with Apple, putting more and more
resource on iOS and even marketing more and more the iPad as a computer
substitute. MacOS feel more the devellopement environement to produce iOS
apps.

Maybe sooner than later they'll ditch macOS all together and then open source
it to the community like its kernel Darwin already is, they already gave it to
the community a few years ago. yet if you check an iphone kernel or mac you'll
read something like : Darwin 17.3.0

When they'll be no money to be made with the mac platform you see it.

Might be soon, microsoft is making an serious ARM version of windows. In the
past mac where based on 68K, PowerPC then intel. I'm just not sure they'll
port macos, they'll probably just leave it behind and adapting iOS even more
to act like a mac.

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