While Apple itself was founded on the roots of hacking and modifying software and hardware to do something it wasn’t originally intended to do, today’s Apple is one of the largest and wealthiest corporations in the history of commerce. Each Apple-branded computer sold is important to Apple’s bottom line. That bottom line gives people jobs, pays taxes, and makes it possible for us to benefit from the software and hardware innovations Apple is making available through its products.
If Apple made $29 instead of $1,000 for every Mac user out there, we would never have the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or possibly even any of the similar products made available by its competitors. If iOS never existed, would Android? These are difficult questions to answer, and ones that are probably best left for another day.
Here are some points to consider before heading down the path of forcing OS X to run on your old PC