Death to Apple's Mac Mini: I made a Hackintosh: "There's an option known as Hackintosh. It's a process of getting MacOS to run on PCs, and it's possible thanks to a group of way-nerdier-than-I-am people who are always finding new ways to make it work."

Maybe one day Mac OS will be like Linux simply because Apple cares more about the iPhone. Could be good thing. Could be a bad thing. Could be nothing.

Labels: hacking osx, hackintosh, hardware, hardware hacking

Chinese accessory maker claims to have 'permanently cracked' Apple's Lightning authentication: "iPhone5mod's Lightning crack is said to be hardware-based. According to the company, Apple cannot negate the crack without reworking its own Lightning hardware. "

"You want a piece of this? Do you?" Clearly the answer is yes. They want to ship products without paying royalties. Or whatever. Where there's a will, there's a way.

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