They would have just gone the iOS route and locked up the hardware completely. If they did, they wouldn't have gone through all the expense of designing a boot system that was sufficiently flexible yet fully secure, for these possibilities to exist.

It also wouldn't make sense for have Apple to do a complete 180 degree flip between the Intel era, where they went to the lengths of coding Bootcamp to even encourage you to install Windows and run it natively, to having legal impediments for other companies to produce OSes. (Which is good! I want to have quality drivers and installers and I know how hard it is to develop good Software!)Īnd anyway that is not a technical impediment, which was, from what I understood, the original 'issue'. You could argue that they're profiting from this. Sure, you can obtain the Software for free, but at least part of the Asahi team is getting paid to develop this. If this were the case, they could take the Asahi team to court since they are actively receiving money in order to develop the drivers, installers, etc. To my knowledge there is nothing from Apple preventing you or anyone else from installing whatever they want in mac Hardware and charging for it. And they don't even particularly enforce it against hackintosh communities. Just that the roadblocks to it happening are (a) more than they were for Intel and (b) much more than would meet the eyes with the viewpoint/theory that you currently have (and that I once had as well).Ĭlick to expand.? the only issue that Apple has is with running their Software on non-mac Hardware. You WILL, however, get it with Windows for ARM64 running on a VM running on a type 2 hypervisor running in macOS, but that's because you're running a Mac app designed for macOS which, again, IS optimized for Apple Silicon. You're not going to get this kind of performance efficiency with Windows for ARM64 running on Apple Silicon.

Apple literally designs these SoCs around macOS and around where they think its users need more performance, let alone performance per watt.

However, Apple Silicon SoCs are performance optimized for macOS. Yes, it's true that writing a new bootloader that is compatible with iBoot isn't insurmountable, even if it's substantially more than was required to run x86 and x86-64 versions of Windows on Intel Macs.

Insurmountable for apple instal free