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XCode has been free for a very long time. It is not crippled. There is no "XCode Professional". SDKs are freely available, and fully documented. No one needs to
by teilo 17y ago
XCode has been free for a very long time. It is not crippled. There is no "XCode Professional". SDKs are freely available, and fully documented. No one needs to pay to develop on Mac, and a good many developers didn't bother with the previous incarnation of the Mac Developer program because it was prohibitively expensive. All it did was get you pre-releases of OS X, hardware discounts, and live technical support for the XCode toolchain.
As to supporting development on other platforms... That's just silly. Would you try to develop Win32 apps on a Linux box? Seriously?
- nitrogen 17y agoIf the OP was referring to iHandheld devices, then it makes sense for anybody but Apple to support multiple host development platforms. For example, a lot of people are crazy enough to do embedded Linux development entirely on Windows. Plus there's no native advantage anywhere, so any host CPU type is as good as any other.
- iuguy 17y agoFor handheld stuff like the iPad and iPhone, my point definitely stands. You wouldn't try to develop symbian software on a Nokia N95. As for developing Win32 apps on a Linux box, you can using Wine or Mono. Likewise you can do the reverse.