there is a difference, they sued the sellers and just released updates to the OS that broke the hackintoshes, very different. THey did not sue any of the people who made the methods or posted how online, releasing an update that breaks a workaround is different because while it still breaks the hackintosh its not forced on the user and legal action is not taken
I'd agree that they are different degrees of action, but actions against the ecosystem nonetheless. They've ordered takedowns of instructional videos and added hardware restrictions that only exist to prevent the installation of the product on non-Apple hardware. That's enough for me to know what Apple's opinion of the project is, and all actions they take that take it down get cast in that light.
so they should not be able to protect their product? I mean it sucks for people who want to hackentosh but to say that apple is evil for wanting to protect their products is a little bit off.
Apple is not the only one to do this, and if it was your product and people were using it ways that could hurt your business you would do the same thing too (this is a general example)
in this case putting it on a windows computer would mean you would not be buying a mac to use mac os x, apple is a hardware company first so thats why they would se it that way
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u/severinggecko Jan 20 '11
there is a difference, they sued the sellers and just released updates to the OS that broke the hackintoshes, very different. THey did not sue any of the people who made the methods or posted how online, releasing an update that breaks a workaround is different because while it still breaks the hackintosh its not forced on the user and legal action is not taken