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and you don't need a mac to develop android apps, so for most people android app is essentially free.

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• sliverstorm 11y ago
  This has already blocked me. Developed an android app, was asked by several friends to port it to Apple, didn't want to shell out for a Mac. Even the Minis, a popular "get a Mac platform for cheap" choice, are several hundred dollars used.
  • scholia 11y ago
    The latest Mac Mini (2014) I saw had soldered RAM and a slow processor, so older used versions should be even more popular....
  • spathi_fwiffo 11y ago
    I've heard of people running MacOS and XCode from VirtualBox/QEMU/etc. I guess you would have to pay for the Mac OS software to install on the VM, but it would save you on hardware costs.
    • arfar 11y ago
      I didn't think that the OS X license let you run it anywhere other than Apple hardware. That's just something I've heard though, never actually investigated it.
      • spathi_fwiffo 11y ago
        I doubt this is true. I know that historically, Apple users were limited to Apple hardware by the nature of the architecture. However, Apple switched to using the same hardware as the rest of the PC world. Another option would be to make a Hackintosh, actually; if you have a sufficiently powerful spare machine; this would also need the OS software, so virtualizing is probably just as easy.