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It would be silly of Apple to drop the MAC requirement for iOS dev : lots of effort to port their tools on other OS with the risk of incompatibilities and they
by jmnicolas 13y ago
It would be silly of Apple to drop the MAC requirement for iOS dev : lots of effort to port their tools on other OS with the risk of incompatibilities and they would loose sales too.
- 72deluxe 13y agoAnd there's no incentive to use Objective-C on any other platform, so with Apple pushing Obj-C on their platforms it makes sense to get a Mac for iOS development, particularly if you spill over to desktop development (which you can do in C++ of course).
- 5teev 13y agoI wouldn't be surprised if Apple someday has a Windows (or whatever) version of Xcode. That is, in a kind of parallel to the OP's essay, Xcode as we know it isn't necessarily "Mac-only" but simply built for Mac first.