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by Ecio78 3514 days ago
I heard that running MacOS on a non-Apple hardware was not considered a legal solution. Am I wrong?

I thought my idea of having a test Jasonette app where you put the url from the app after the boot to do your testing could be very easily doable and way not it could allow also to test the various existing apps that OP created: he could create a test app that downloads a list of his demo apps (so it is always up to date), show a dropdown or similar to choose the demo app + allow you to specify your own custom test url using the keyboard of the device. In this way you have both a demo and a test application :)

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IANAL but I'm fairly certain that given Apple's resources, if they wanted to stop this practice, they'd have obliterated VMWare Unlocker from the map. It's been around for years, they certainly know about it, and they haven't done anything about it. So if not expressly legal, they certainly don't seem to have a problem with it.
> I thought my idea of having a test Jasonette app where you put the url from the app after the boot

This is how many UX Prototyping apps, like Invision or Origami works. You download the Origami Studio iPhone app, input in the URL of your prototype, and it loads it into it.

This is an excellent solution for getting up and running with Jasonette without a Mac.

Technically/'legally' it's against the EULA - it only supports virtualising macOS on Apple hardware.

In practice, it's very easy to do.