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It was so necessary to have an iPad 2 RIGHT NOW that you had to go run out and buy a model you didn't even want?
by Legion 16y ago
It was so necessary to have an iPad 2 RIGHT NOW that you had to go run out and buy a model you didn't even want?
- DrJokepu 16y agoWhoa, why so hostile?
- Hawramani 16y agoHe didn't sound hostile to me.
- BigZaphod 16y agoDoes it matter?
- cletus 16y agoI consider it a loaner until my 3G model arrives.
- sammcd 16y agoInteresting. I didn't even question this part :). 80% of people here make money off of software. If I was being funded by an iPad app it definitely would be that important.
- Dylanlacey 16y agoSee, that's the first thing that occurred to me. Why can't you use an emulator OR an older iPad for development for a couple of weeks?
- megablast 16y agoEmulators aren't 100%, I had a problem with an app that worked perfectly on the simulator, and crashed on the device. Also, if you are doing something with the new features, like the cameras, you will need a new device.
- schrototo 16y agoAlso of note: there is no iPhone/iPad emulator, only a simulator. There's huge differences in performance, in addition to some rare bugs that only manifest themselves on either the simulator or the device.
- sammcd 16y agoI'm working on an iPad app now. There are many things you need the device for. First, the lower amount of memory is very important for testing how your views load and unload. Second I've noticed pretty big differences in how the screen looks on my MBP as opposed to on the actual device.
- nomurrcy 16y agoI can't believe people are responding negatively to your comment. Of course you can do development in the simulator or on an older model for a couple of weeks. Developing on the old model is probably a must-do for at least another year or two. Furthermore, while you do need to test on a device later in the dev cycle, I (and most other devs I know) actually don't deploy to hardware for days at a time early in the cycle. Early in the iphone dev cycle there were enormous disparities between bugs on hardware and the simulator. Some symbols didn't even link consistently between the two and re targeting would cause compilation errors. This is no longer the case and the two targets are very, very close. In fact, if someone told me they wanted to get into ipad development, I would tell them to write their app first, and then buy an iPad to test it on.
- Legion 16y agoI would understand if it were a dev device. But if it were, then there'd be no need to mail order some different model.