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Re:Third-party compilers locked out of Windows Runtime devel... by msie on Thursday August 23, 2012 @01:11PM (#4423542)
What bugs me about people saying that you need to buy a Mac for iOS development is that you need to buy a computer in order to do any software development. What do Windows developers develop on? Free computers? Is the criticism coming from Windows developers who don't want to buy a Mac to develop for iOS? :D
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Re:Third-party compilers locked out of Windows Runtime devel... by freehunter on Thursday August 23, 2012 @01:36PM (#4423722)
I could make an Android app on Linux or Windows or OSX. I could make a Windows program on Linux or Mac, and I could make a Linux program on Windows or Mac. I don't know if you could make a Mac program on Windows or Linux, but it might be possible. Point being, you can use the computer you already have.

My criticism of having to buy a Mac and use XCode to make an iOS app is in response to the criticism of having to use Windows and Visual Studio to make a Windows RT app. It's the same process. The only difference between Windows RT and iOS is that Microsoft lets you install Windows RT apps on a desktop/laptop as well as a tablet. Microsoft is far from pioneering this requirement by several years and half-a-million apps. Yet people are pushing this like it's a brand new Microsoft innovation.

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