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If you are earning money from this line of work, you owe it to yourself to buy a proper device. In fact, you owe it to yourself anyway - the iOS simulator is te
by to3m 13y ago
If you are earning money from this line of work, you owe it to yourself to buy a proper device. In fact, you owe it to yourself anyway - the iOS simulator is terrible. The performance is hilariously unrepresentative, the touch simulation woefully limited, and you can't even play any games on it.
So, instead of spending all this money on this fancy new Macbook Pro, why not just buy an iPad? For the money you've spent, you could have bought an iPad 4 AND an iPod Touch 5G AND an iPod Touch 4G, and you'd still have change for the bus home. Probably even a taxi back, in fact.
Your new collection would cover every possible aspect ratio and resolution of the devices that your customers are likely to have, and do a good job of covering the performance bases as well.
- andymoe 13y agoTotally agree with this. My father is a carpenter and he taught me not to skimp on tools. I paid 3k for one of my MBPs in 2009 and it's still kicking. That laptop has paid for itself well over 100 times since then.
- jason_slack 13y agoso would you keep the MBP 15 from the MBP 13 or return it and buy devices for teting on real hardware?
- andymoe 13y agoWell I'd have gone with a retina version of the MBP at this point but I understand why you did not given your HD space needs. In your situation if I was happy with the 13" inch aside from the simulator issue I'd probably make sure I had a retina ipad to test on first so I'd just return the MBP and go that way. Next I'd probably also buy a 27" thunderbolt. I have one at work and don't have one at home and it's kind of killing me - in a privileged first world problems kind of way... I like to close my laptop and just use the large display so I can have both Xcode and any reference material I want on the same display without needing to move my head to look at the laptop.
- jason_slack 13y agoInteresting idea since I have an iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and and iPad Mini already as test devices.