- Joined
- Jan 7, 2011
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- GIGABYTE GA-Z97XM-GAMING 5
- CPU
- i7-4790K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mobile Phone
We should be extremely worried as to the future because of Apple's ongoing and intensifying effort to shut out Hackintosh from future install compatibility. This is being slowly put into place by binding their future OS X versions directly to serialized hardware on at least the communications side. This has happened already with iMessage and FaceTime.
Apple is so far being nice in letting your Hackintosh communicate with iPhone and iPad calendar, notes, reminders, etc. the same way they have invited the Windoz crowd in with iTunes for Windows. So, they have not yet interfered with letting Hackintosh run iTunes to manage these devices and share content. It is not likely this will change in the short run.
However, I think the handwriting is on the wall. In Yosemite you can already see the install itself becoming the gateway for future roadblocks to non-Apple hardware installs. Specifically we have just seen the iMessage and FaceTime communications authentication put into service. If they go but one step further and engage encrypted, two way authentication of the upgrade process itself, there will be hell to pay and no bucket for the hot pitch.
There is also a rumor that Intel is going to surface mount CPU for Broadwell and beyond, which puts a lot of pressure on board makers intent on supplying suitable motherboards, as they will be forced to also provide pre-mounted CPU's. Rumor or not, it is the specter of serial number authenticated upgrades that looms, based on clues in Yosemite's install line item messages.
I will be very happy to be wrong about this. It is just a strange thought I had on awaking this morning.
Apple is so far being nice in letting your Hackintosh communicate with iPhone and iPad calendar, notes, reminders, etc. the same way they have invited the Windoz crowd in with iTunes for Windows. So, they have not yet interfered with letting Hackintosh run iTunes to manage these devices and share content. It is not likely this will change in the short run.
However, I think the handwriting is on the wall. In Yosemite you can already see the install itself becoming the gateway for future roadblocks to non-Apple hardware installs. Specifically we have just seen the iMessage and FaceTime communications authentication put into service. If they go but one step further and engage encrypted, two way authentication of the upgrade process itself, there will be hell to pay and no bucket for the hot pitch.
There is also a rumor that Intel is going to surface mount CPU for Broadwell and beyond, which puts a lot of pressure on board makers intent on supplying suitable motherboards, as they will be forced to also provide pre-mounted CPU's. Rumor or not, it is the specter of serial number authenticated upgrades that looms, based on clues in Yosemite's install line item messages.
I will be very happy to be wrong about this. It is just a strange thought I had on awaking this morning.