> Apple has never bothered to detect jailbreaks and lock people out of iCloud and iMessage.
replyNot entirely true. It absolutely has in the case of the Hackintosh. In fact many a year ago that’s what inspired me to get my first Mac, because every release of macOS made it harder and harder with custom bootloader and kexts to get around Apple’s active efforts to ensure you couldn’t use those unless you were on an actual Apple device, not just running their OS.
A Hackintosh is different from an iOS jailbreak.
replyAn iOS jailbreak is trying to use an Apple device like a Linux device, with access to the filesystem and private APIs.
A Hackintosh is more like emulating the APIs (and an actual Apple serial number, which I guess they use to gate access to iCloud and iMessage) required to boot and run macOS on an Intel PC.
No, I get it, but it's still somewhat fallacious to say Apple doesn't care about "unauthorized" access to devices or services (whether or not you agree that such authority is reasonable or not).
replyI think it makes sense that you'd get banned if you did iMessage type abuse via jailbreak too. There just isn't some flag isJailbroken or something.
replyWhat is iMessage abuse on a Hackintosh? It’s connected to an Apple account. You’re running macOS. What is inherently abusive about it?
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