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..will be required by default..

Just change the setting if the default doesn’t suit you.

This change mainly affects developers who will now have to pay apples ransom if they want anyone to be able to run their app.

I’m not sure how the developer running a hackintosh fixes that.

On a Hackintosh you have that choice, on Apple hardware you'll eventually have that choice taken away from you.

That is my point.

For a user of your sophistication, why bother with a Hackintosh at all? You could use a truly free Linux based OS and not have to deal with any of this. Is there some killer app that you can only get in Mac OS? Xcode I guess for iPhone dev? And if you have a moral objection to Apple making MacOS like iOS, why would you want to do iOS dev?

Firstly, macOS is a far and away superior experience, given the alternatives, secondly it has better applications, or the Mac versions are better than for other platforms and thirdly it allows development on all platforms with a minimum of fuss.

Overall it's just more productive and pleasant. If there were a practical alternative I'd jump in a second.

Developing for all platforms is a commercial reality, regardless of what I think, but wanting freedom to develop software for any platform without a corporate's approval is not unreasonable. The complaint applies to Google and Microsoft to some degree as well.

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