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Re:Ask HN: To MacBook or Not to MacBook? by armajid on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:29PM (#33197303)
When you say 'prevents you from writing apps' do you mean native iOS apps which (at least to my knowledge) can only be done on Macs? Or do you mean other types of applications?
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Re:Ask HN: To MacBook or Not to MacBook? by hardwaresofton on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:41PM (#33197424)
Ah yes, using things like XCode and the iOS/MacOS app build toolchain (legally, anyway)
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Re:Ask HN: To MacBook or Not to MacBook? by armajid on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:18PM (#33197745)
Will take this into account, thank you.
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Re:Ask HN: To MacBook or Not to MacBook? by Jtsummers on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:21PM (#33198226)
iOS/iPadOS, sure. But macOS apps can be written in any language that can compile or run on macOS, and you can cross compile from any OS assuming the compiler is available on that OS (that is, you can cross compile on Windows or Linux for macOS). It's producing and distributing iOS/iPadOS apps that Apple has kept locked down.
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