does it count as an hackintosh

[suicidalfranco]

always wondered, it's known that selling PCs with OSX installed is illegal, but what if someone decides to pick up an existing mac pro and sell in a different case with extra hardware mostly used to redirect current ports in other positions or as adaptors to other types of ports

In the same argument would it be wrong, illegal, to do the same to an iphone? like taking an iphone, dissembling and putting in some other enclosure and sell it as an iphone with bigger battery, or an iphone 7 with audio jack and bigger battery, or an iphone with higher screen to body ratio

[MrDynamicMan]

Well, to start off with that would be very difficult. Because 

• The PCB on the iPhone cant have  a headphone jack just added on
• Again, internals kinda limit screen to body ratio, though making a thicker one with a bigger battery would work. 

And this would most definitely be illegal. It's unorthorised retail. 

[Sauron]

It would certainly depend on local laws, but I don't think it would be generally illegal as long as you don't advertise it as a "mac pro" or "iphone" afterwards. You'd just be an apple reseller doing custom, warranty voiding abuse to what he sells (which by the way would probably cost you the apple reseller license and would mean you'd have to buy everything at customer price).

 

Either way I don't think modding the iphone like you suggest is even possible, there are firmware locks on what works with it and what doesn't.

[TetraSky]

I don't think there's a law that prevent you from tinkering with devices you've bought. But, selling said device afterward though, that would most likely be illegal depending on where you are, especially if you sell them as "apple products" and not something else entirely.

[suicidalfranco]

1 minute ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Well, to start off with that would be very difficult. Because 

• The PCB on the iPhone cant have  a headphone jack just added on
• Again, internals kinda limit screen to body ratio, though making a thicker one with a bigger battery would work. 

And this would most definitely be illegal. It's unorthorised retail. 

i can't modify the PCB, but i can take advantage of the lightning port to split it to lightning and audio jack, like using those splitters currently available, only without the casing of dongle and soldered directly on the pins of the port.

the motherboard of the iPhone is already pretty small, consider that inside the body of of something like the HTC M10 volume wise, one could technically fit a bigger battery and a jack.

 

[potoooooooo]

There's someone who rebuilds 15 inch macbook pros as tablets or something like that

[suicidalfranco]

10 minutes ago, Sauron said:

It would certainly depend on local laws, but I don't think it would be generally illegal as long as you don't advertise it as a "mac pro" or "iphone" afterwards. You'd just be an apple reseller doing custom, warranty voiding abuse to what he sells (which by the way would probably cost you the apple reseller license and would mean you'd have to buy everything at customer price).

 

Either way I don't think modding the iphone like you suggest is even possible, there are firmware locks on what works with it and what doesn't.

modding the iphone would simply involve hardware hacks and use what already exist, like taking on of those dongle that allow you to listen and charge at the same, remove everything that is superfluous and just solder it straight on to the pins of the lightning port- The only point where i see issues would be knowing if iOS can adapt it's battery life percentage algorithm to a bigger internal battery.

[suicidalfranco]

3 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

There's someone who rebuilds 15 inch macbook pros as tablets or something like that

i think their name was modbook iirc, don't know if there still around. But that's pretty much where i took the idea when i looked at current gen macbooks.

Wish i had a metal workshop and infinite money to experiment the shit out of this concept