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The AppleCare Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026. Starting today, the site will no longer accept new posts and is available in a read-only state.
You can continue to find trusted guidance and support on the official Apple Support site.
We want to thank the community members who have contributed their time and expertise to help others with their Apple products.
I want to know how to develop apps for Iphone. And to be able to do that you must have a mac or something right?. I wonder if apple provides a free trial of mac os? if yes, where can I find it? Thanks
You must have a Mac to run Mac OS X, and by extension the iOS SDK.
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Mountain Lion is $19.99, available from the Mac App Store only (included with a new Mac).
You need a recent Intel-based Mac to install.
oohh ok. that's bad.
I thought of looking for a website that allows mac os download will solve my problem because Vsphere/VMware already support a Mac platform.
anyway, Thanks 🙂
VMWare runs on a Mac but Mac OS X does not run under VMWare on another platform.
Ok. I'm a bit confused.
So what were you trying to say? that to be able to use and install Mac OS in the Mac platform supported by vmware, the Physical machine must be Mac as well?
Yes.
The Apple EULA only permits OS X to be installed on Apple hardware. It is possible to install OS X Server and some older versions of OS X in a virtualized environment - when the host operating system is OS X running on Apple HW.
Under no circumstances does the EULA allow OS X to be installed on non-Apple hardware.
As g_wolfman said, plus, you can use VMware with a Mac platform running Mac OS X to run things like Windows, but you cannot run Windows with VMware to run Mac OS X...Mac OS X willnot run on another hardware platform even virtualized.
Is it possible to download a free trial mac os?
