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Forgive the rambling but it's getting late and I'm sleepy: I'm just saying that people are complaining too much about having to buy a Mac to write code for iOS

by msie 10y ago

Forgive the rambling but it's getting late and I'm sleepy: I'm just saying that people are complaining too much about having to buy a Mac to write code for iOS. If not must, then you should buy a Windows machine to develop for Windows but you don't hear anyone complain about that. You have to buy an Oculus Rift to develop Oculus Rift software. You have to buy an Android device to test your Android program. etc... You don't have to buy a Linux machine to write code for Android but if you don't have a computer at all then you have to buy one. There's stuff you have to pay for to get into programming...To build software that will make you money. Windows/Linux developers are complaining that Apple didn't release free tools for their platform and overreacting.

chipperyman573 10y ago
>Windows machine to develop for Windows There are so many ways to develop Windows apps on OSX (unless I'm misreading, which I might be because this point is so blatantly wrong) >Oculus Rift to develop Oculus Rift software You can download the SDK without the Rift, you just can't test how it will work on a rift without... a rift >You don't have to buy a Linux machine to write code for Android but if you don't have a computer at all then you have to buy one I mean... you're not wrong but the point is you can buy any computer you want, not some overpriced, under-powered laptop with an apple on the lid
ci5er 10y ago
I will stand up and be prickly here and say: please do not judge the world by your (apparently) Apple-centric circumstance. I (personally) am a nomad. I can not carry 27 computers with me. My world would be best served by having one computer that does all the jobs. Apple hinders me in this; it does not help. Yes, I can (and do) do Hackintosh VMs, but it makes me feel dirty. Whenever I have to deploy on an iphone, to test I buy a bank of iphones (and give them to the neighborhood children when I am done). That should be good enough.
- matt4077 10y ago
  Run Windows on a Macbook? They're pretty excellent for travelling. Just the other day I dumped half a Caipirinha over the keyboard and I booted right up afte two hours in the Cuban shade :)
microcolonel 10y ago
You can easily write good Windows applications on Linux and OS X; and Microsoft distributes standard virtualization images for free which you can fire up in a VM to test your Windows applications. In addition to those virtual machines, Wine implements much of the Win32 library and can be used to test your Windows applications with some minor limitations. For iOS you cannot run your build process on a remote machine without jumping high hoops, you cannot build without OS X at all, you cannot sign code for your own device without their IDE and a certificate from their website.

by msie 10y ago

chipperyman573 10y ago

>Windows machine to develop for Windows There are so many ways to develop Windows apps on OSX (unless I'm misreading, which I might be because this point is so blatantly wrong) >Oculus Rift to develop Oculus Rift software You can download the SDK without the Rift, you just can't test how it will work on a rift without... a rift >You don't have to buy a Linux machine to write code for Android but if you don't have a computer at all then you have to buy one I mean... you're not wrong but the point is you can buy any computer you want, not some overpriced, under-powered laptop with an apple on the lid

ci5er 10y ago

I will stand up and be prickly here and say: please do not judge the world by your (apparently) Apple-centric circumstance. I (personally) am a nomad. I can not carry 27 computers with me. My world would be best served by having one computer that does all the jobs. Apple hinders me in this; it does not help. Yes, I can (and do) do Hackintosh VMs, but it makes me feel dirty. Whenever I have to deploy on an iphone, to test I buy a bank of iphones (and give them to the neighborhood children when I am done). That should be good enough.

matt4077 10y ago
Run Windows on a Macbook? They're pretty excellent for travelling. Just the other day I dumped half a Caipirinha over the keyboard and I booted right up afte two hours in the Cuban shade :)

microcolonel 10y ago

You can easily write good Windows applications on Linux and OS X; and Microsoft distributes standard virtualization images for free which you can fire up in a VM to test your Windows applications. In addition to those virtual machines, Wine implements much of the Win32 library and can be used to test your Windows applications with some minor limitations. For iOS you cannot run your build process on a remote machine without jumping high hoops, you cannot build without OS X at all, you cannot sign code for your own device without their IDE and a certificate from their website.