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Why should anybody need to buy an iPhone to develop an android app? Using an API that is supposedly supported on android and shouldn't need an apple device? Bt

• capableweb 7y ago
  > Why should anybody need to buy an iPhone to develop an android app? You don't, you can perfectly develop an android app without owning an iphone BUT, if you're using features from another ecosystem, let's say something like an authentication system that has requirements, you have to fulfill those requirements, otherwise skip the feature. Same goes if you want to support hardware-level U2F, you're gonna have to buy a key then.
  • ubercow13 7y ago
    It's different having to buy a device to test a product you are developing for that device. Apple is just gatekeeping access to their API to developers who buy one of their otherwise unrelated products.
    • capableweb 7y ago
      > Apple is just gatekeeping access to their API to developers who buy one of their otherwise unrelated products I don't know how that's news for anyone, Apple has been doing this forever and they explicitly chase that goal as far as I know. If you're saying "yeah, I want to support iOS/Sign in with Apple/AirDrop/Screenshare/Any other Apple feature" then you're entering the need of having more things to do with Apple. That's the cost of joining and leaving the ecosystem they created for themselves.
      • LanceH 7y ago
        Depends on how you look at it, really. End users say, "I would like to be able to sign in with xxx." Developers say, "Your OS vendor doesn't want you to."