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I don't understand why Apple wants to prevent people using MacOS in VMs. The performance is so bad that no one in their right mind would use it as a daily driver, but people are using it to build/release software.

More software available on their platform should be a good thing, no?

Professionals will still buy machines for convenience (building/testing is a lot faster when every click doesn't take seconds) and pay the Developer Program fee, and us open-source developers can make our software available to Apple users, or make sure it works on Safari. Why make it illegal?



Maybe to preserve the illusion that Mac OS is inherently part of the computers Apple sells as opposed to a separate product that's linked to them artificially?




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