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Re:AndroidKickstartR: Start your next Android app in 10 seconds by alexholehouse on Friday October 12, 2012 @11:23AM (#4645416)
I'm about to buy a new phone, and I'm going to get an iPhone 5. The primary reason is not because it's (necessarily) a better phone than any Android phones, or because iOS6 is better, but because I can't spend three weeks building an iPhone app anywhere nearly as I could an Android one. I don't have the time, or even close to having the time, but I know with an Android phone I would do it anyway, and it would probably just derail the other 30 things I don't have time for. (For the record, I have built an iPhone app before and it's not that it's harder than building for Android in terms of code/framework, but I don't have a Mac, a developer licence etc).

I wonder if anyone else is motivated to get an iPhone because of this? It's a kind of bizarre situation, but one I'm so glad I identified before buying a phone.

Re:AndroidKickstartR: Start your next Android app in 10 seconds by gebe on Friday October 12, 2012 @12:00PM (#4645590)
Wait, you are going to buy an iPhone because that would _hinder_ you from taking up app development since you don't have a Mac? That is quite bizarre yes, but each to his own :)
Re:AndroidKickstartR: Start your next Android app in 10 seconds by mtgx on Friday October 12, 2012 @12:06PM (#4645619)
You're going to wait 2 weeks for your app and any updates to be approved anyway.
Re:AndroidKickstartR: Start your next Android app in 10 seconds by myko on Friday October 12, 2012 @02:07PM (#4646178)
I don't think you read the post properly? It said he was getting an iPhone so he wouldn't be tempted to do development.