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Re:What App Developers Want: Letters To Steve Jobs And Larry... by irahul on Saturday April 16, 2011 @03:44PM (#2454680)
I don't develop for smartphones(yet) but this is something Apple should consider. MBP are too damn expensive for developing world, and even in the developed countries, many people don't own a MBP by choice. When people who don't own a MBP develop for the smartphones and its time to go native, they end up going Android even when they wanted to do it for IOS or for both.

I am not very familiar with iOS development infrastructure but since MacBook is BSD based, it should be possible to at least make it run on Linux and FreeBSD.

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Re:What App Developers Want: Letters To Steve Jobs And Larry... by Aqua_Geek on Saturday April 16, 2011 @04:09PM (#2454735)
You don't have to buy a MacBook Pro. A MacMini works just fine for development, and it's half the price.

> since MacBook is BSD based, it should be possible to at least make it run on Linux and FreeBSD

Mac OS X has a UNIX foundation, not the MacBook - you can run Windows on your MacBook if you really want to. A lot of the low-level system libraries are open source (http://opensource.apple.com) and can be compiled for Linux/FreeBSD. I highly doubt they're going to do the necessary work to port over the development tools and UI that sit on top of that, though.

Would it be nice? For some people - possibly. Is it ever going to happen? Nope.

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Re:What App Developers Want: Letters To Steve Jobs And Larry... by cellularmitosis on Saturday April 16, 2011 @04:28PM (#2454775)
I develop iOS apps on a $300 Dell mini 10v (hackintosh). It's slower than my MBP at work, but it's just as capable.
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Re:What App Developers Want: Letters To Steve Jobs And Larry... by elai on Saturday April 16, 2011 @06:59PM (#2455079)
To be honest, an iPhone is too expensive for most of the developing world. Rarely anyone has an iPhone in thailand, and they're looked as luxury items like a luxury car.
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