> Most HNers develop software on Mac I've never owned a Mac, and the last time I used one was in 2004. > ideal development platform The other day I wanted t

> Most HNers develop software on Mac I've never owned a Mac, and the last time I used one was in 2004. > ideal development platform The other day I wanted to apply the hqx filtering algorithm to some images, with proper handling of transparency. The code I found for this [1] uses the DeVIL image library. After some apt-cache searching, I found that I could do this: sudo apt-get install libdevil-dev libdevil1c2 I challenge you to compile this program on a Mac. Not as easy, is it? > they don't care about what Apple does I certainly do! Due to the fact that you have to pay a non-refundable fee to the App store and it's hit-or-miss whether your app gets accepted or stays accepted, I've decided to develop mobile apps exclusively for Android. [1] http://code.google.com/p/hqx/ http://code.google.com/p/hqx/