You cannot buy the Mac operating system. It's not for sale. . . so you have a problem in making a modern Hackintosh.
Yup. That's one of the things that annoys me. It is their decision of course, but I'd really love to see a "vmMac", which would be a VMWare image that you could purchase. Since the emulated virtual hardware in VMWare is pretty standardized, from a support standpoint they wouldn't have to deal with the issue hardware compatibility and such. I'd be more than happy to pay for it. Also, if they just shipped an image, it you wouldn't have any installation weirdness. At least that way I could talk to my iPhone without having to install a copy of since Apple doesn't support iTunes on Linux. Speak of which, that would rock as well.
TO speak to the topic, it really doesn't surprise me. Now that you're seeing less internal corporate apps and website that are geared towards specific versions of windows or IE, more corps should be looking at this kind of thing.