Think of it like maybe your OS speaks English, but your hard drive speaks French. So one "side" of the driver is defined by the people who write the OS: "We will talk to hardware using these function calls." The other side of the driver is the people who write it implementing those calls so it behaves the way the OS expects. A "driver" is some code designed to tell the OS what the hardware can do and to have ways for the OS to tell it to do those things. The way most OSes deal with that today is to have "drivers" for hardware.
It's a bunch of software for managing applications, but most of what we need to do needs to interact with hardware like storage controllers or graphics cards.Įach piece of hardware like that is like a tiny secondary computer, and it needs to be told what to do using special commands unique to each model. Apple does not want this to happen, so they prevent it from happening.Īnd that is why you can run Windows on an Apple computer, but not MacOS on a non-Apple computer. Without those special measures, people could install MacOS on lots of PC hardware. To the point where Apple has taken special measures to make it not work. If they did want it, it would be trivially easy to do so. MacOS cannot be installed on non-Apple hardware because Apple does not want people do be able to do this. Now, it's not THAT hard to bypass, but it's the fact that you must perform this bypass that's the hack part of a hackintosh, and also makes it technically illegal in the US. Note, this has nothing at all to do with the ability for MacOS to work on the device or not. Even if you are using the exact same spec components the system won't identify it as an apple built computer and therefore MacOS will refuse to install. So Apple does a check to verify that you are installing the software on Apple built hardware. In fact, Microsoft encourages people to install windows on computers.Īpple on the other hand, does not want anyone to install MacOS on anything other than a Mac computer. Functionally Microsoft simply allows windows to be installed unless it can't be installed. So as long as the hardware is considered compatible you can install it (and sometimes you can install it on incompatible hardware, lol).
Windows is intended to be run on hardware from lots of vendors. Because Apple does not permit it, but Microsoft does.
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