Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws

Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by nine_k on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:07PM (#33976684)

On top of $100/year developer license, you also need an Apple laptop (or desktop) to develop for iOS devices. You are legally (though not technically) forbidden to run a copy of macOS on non-Apple hardware, even if a legitimate copy were obtainable without purchasing some hardware.

Apple is a hardware company, an appliance company if you wish, and also a media company. The fact that they are forced to also produce general computing devices as a wayto run stuff like Ableton or Photoshop is, I suspect, seen as a pesky legacy of Apple II days.

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Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by judge2020 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:56PM (#33978590)

> , even if a legitimate copy were obtainable without purchasing some hardware.

Pedantic, but the license agreement line requiring that 'MacOS can only run on Apple hardware' is, itself, in service of the fact that they only license the software to you if you purchase their hardware.

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Re:Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by ... by nine_k on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:23PM (#33979645)

Exactly. IIRC you can legitimately run macOS on a VM, but the VM should run on Apple hardware.

A Hackintosh is a transgression.

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