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llarsson6y ago· 4 in thread

It is not a technical problem, but a legal one. It is that they do not want to expose themselves by violating agreements with Apple.

Do you want to be the genius that saved a few dollars on hardware with a Hackintosh only to get the company sued?

seba_dos16y ago

Exactly. If you don't care about Apple ToS, you can cross-compile on GNU/Linux just fine without ever touching macOS.

rajlegoOP6y ago

I hadn’t considered this at all mainly because I haven’t heard of apple taking legal actions against people promoting hackintosh related things and methods. Though I guess it could become a problem for a company.

throwaway35636y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation

arvinsim6y ago

It's only because most hackintoshers don't make money by selling them.

It also takes a lot of time to setup so hackintoshing will never gain mainstream numbers.

speedgoose6y ago· 3 in thread

It's too time consuming and risky for a company.

lostgame6y ago

There is a large rate of failure and larger fix times for issues, as well.

rajlegoOP6y ago

I forget if there’s a better way to describe it but usually if there’s going to be a failure, it’ll be at the beginning (unless you’re constantly updating software which does have some risk)

rajlegoOP6y ago

If it’s too risky I’d assume the company would have enough money to not have to resort to building hackintoshes

happymellon6y ago

Of you are thinking of a hackintosh just to compile, then it would probably be easier to just virtualize it.

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

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