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Note that anyone can download libraries for XCode that let you compile and simulate iPhone apps---but you must have their dev kit to actually transfer this over
by blahedo 17y ago
Note that anyone can download libraries for XCode that let you compile and simulate iPhone apps---but you must have their dev kit to actually transfer this over the wire to your iPhone. And the dev kit is $99.
There is, supposedly, another way: there is a program by which universities can get free iPhone developer kits for use in classes. Sounds great, right? Don't you believe it. The signup process is poorly conceived and a flaming mass of pain that, after a month and a half of trying, caused me to give up making an iPhone/iPod app be the final project in my HCI class. Good job, Apple!
- davidw 17y ago> but you must have their dev kit to actually transfer this over the wire to your iPhone That pretty much sums up the problem, in my opinion. Those things aren't cheap, and if it's mine, I should get to install what I want on it. I can understand weeding things out of their store - that's fine - they want to control the quality. However, if I want to put something on my own device via a usb cable, I ought to be able to.
- ido 17y ago> Note that anyone can download libraries for XCode that let you compile and simulate iPhone apps As far as I know you can only develop for the iphone on a mac. Is that true?