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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by jiggy2011 on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @06:37AM (#3975888)
Xcode is just the IDE right? No particular need to port that if you can just use Eclipse or the command line tools. The simulator could come later as long as you can test on a device so all your really looking at is a objC compiler and a linker.

Whilst I'm sure it's not a trivial task something tells me that there is more to this than technical limitations.

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Re:Wozniak calls for open Apple by ricardobeat on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @02:10PM (#3977891)
Along with XCode comes the iOS simulator, debug tools, publishing/packaging and certificate handling. And of course there is more to it: diminishing returns.
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