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Old 08-12-2019, 11:00 AM   #235
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Originally Posted by superblonde.org View Post
Or maybe apple allows hackintosh because they want to avoid antitrust regulation. intel "allowed" amd to exist for decades on purpose because they needed another company to "take" about 8-10% of the market so as not to be labelled a monopoly and forcibly split by regulators.
Apple only makes up about 5% of the market. Anti-trust issues are about as far from their problems as you can find. Hackintosh exists because it is a tiny, tiny slice of their pie, and it would cost them more to stop it than it would just to ignore it.
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