Yeah, that's what they're supposed to do, and to the credit of the Hackintosh community, that’s what most tutorials suggest.
But like you said, there are always people who don’t care about others as long as they have theirs.
There is, so far anyway, no reason to go against this best practice because, even though Apple can instantly detect a bogus serial, their currently used scoring threshold still allows you to use iMessage provided you’ve got a non-fresh Apple ID in good standing.
But like you said, there are always people who don’t care about others as long as they have theirs.
There is, so far anyway, no reason to go against this best practice because, even though Apple can instantly detect a bogus serial, their currently used scoring threshold still allows you to use iMessage provided you’ve got a non-fresh Apple ID in good standing.