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Re:ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation by scarface74 on Saturday August 04, 2018 @03:26PM (#17688121)
How is it “Apple’s policy”? Apple chooses not to write a tool chain for Windows or Linux. If a third party once to make one, they are free to do so.

The post I was responding to said “it was against Apple’s TOS”, probably referring to a policy that was rescinded back in 2011.

There is a big difference between Apple not allowing something and Apple not supporting something. I choose to write native apps for the platforms I care about. If I wanted to use Xamarin I could.

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Re:ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation by esrauch on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:43AM (#17704545)
To make a build of a xaramin app for publishing to the iOS store dont you need a Mac at least for one stage? It looks like you do under the "Archive for Publishing" section here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/deploy-test/app...

It's also against ToS to virtualize OSX on non-Mac hardware as far as I know.

I don't think they are just doing that for fun.

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