I truly don’t understand the mentality that because they are successful they are wrong to defend their intellectual property.
I don’t know that the T2 will be used in such a manner, but it certainly seems possible. It’s already possible using CPU serial numbers.
Your response about cars does not address the theft that is occurring.
The major (sadly legalised) theft that you’re overlooking is the covert, 20 year long transfer of (former) Mac profits into iDevice development, real estate, unnecessary luxury, avoided taxes, and hundreds of billions piled up with undecided purpose.
All money invested by customers, who paid premium for the Mac as they expected
that business to stay competitive.
This money didn’t go into dividends, wasn’t being back-invested in top-performing Mac hardware.
So now we’re in a vacuum of underperforming, fluffy upgrades designed with huge margins in mind because that’s what Apple got addicted to.
So crying over spilt milk of 0.0000...1% lost MacOS turnover is useless as the tank itself has been wide open for years and years.
Apple must become 100% committed and with relevant HW updates first.
There must more viable, competitive grounds to stay in the market than locking customers up in a closed eco-system (becoming an eco-jail)
Regain the K12/edu segment with a competitive environment to win back the younger generation instead of overcharging and losing them to the Chrome or Windows world.
Same for the BtoB segment - still owned by Google/MSoft.
Stop waning about tens of Hackintosh individuals while they’re alienating millions of their own, founding customers.
Look at the root cause of the problem: Who would take a complex and risky Hackintosh route when real Mac hardware would be competitive ?