[jedieaston]

Because some of us have hope that Apple might be using high-performance commodity hardware with OS X and maybe they’ll let us do that one day too, so we don’t have spend $6000 for a Mac tower.

Alas, it is but a dream.

[catblast]

That’s irrelevant though. I run OS X on kvm, people run hackintoshes. There’s no technical limitation here, never has been, it’s a business decision.

Apple obviously isn’t beholden to the licensing terms that they release OS X to their consumers under.

If they want to run OS X on commodity hardware they can, and moreover it doesn’t change their positioning to the outside at all.

[tinus_hn]

If Apple uses Apple hardware to host this they pay the manufacturing cost, not the retail price you pay.

It probably wouldn’t look good if they hosted this on third party machines running Mac OS.