Re:Why I'm Ditching Android
by dragonwriter on Saturday November 03, 2018 @05:52PM
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> Back then, if you wanted to develop a program for a Commodore 64, you bought a Commodore 64.
I don't think anyone would object of all it took to develop for iOS was the device bring targeted, or even an iOS device. The fact that you have to buy a different piece of Apple hardware is this the issue.
You can build Android apps on an Android device. Optionally, you can use Linux, MacOS, or Windows, instead.
> The concept of "I want to build an iPhone app on a Windows box" is a strange new phenomenon to me.
The iOS situation isn't like “you must buy a PC to build PC software”, but more like “you must buy an IBM mainframe to build PC software”.
I don't think anyone would object of all it took to develop for iOS was the device bring targeted, or even an iOS device. The fact that you have to buy a different piece of Apple hardware is this the issue.
You can build Android apps on an Android device. Optionally, you can use Linux, MacOS, or Windows, instead.
> The concept of "I want to build an iPhone app on a Windows box" is a strange new phenomenon to me.
The iOS situation isn't like “you must buy a PC to build PC software”, but more like “you must buy an IBM mainframe to build PC software”.