Re:The most popular APIs and tech at college hackathons
by sliverstorm on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:40PM
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This has already blocked me. Developed an android app, was asked by several friends to port it to Apple, didn't want to shell out for a Mac. Even the Minis, a popular "get a Mac platform for cheap" choice, are several hundred dollars used.
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Re:The most popular APIs and tech at college hackathons
by spathi_fwiffo on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @04:45PM
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I've heard of people running MacOS and XCode from VirtualBox/QEMU/etc. I guess you would have to pay for the Mac OS software to install on the VM, but it would save you on hardware costs.
Re:The most popular APIs and tech at college hackathons
by arfar on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @01:02AM
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I didn't think that the OS X license let you run it anywhere other than Apple hardware. That's just something I've heard though, never actually investigated it.
Re:The most popular APIs and tech at college hackathons
by spathi_fwiffo on Monday August 03, 2015 @01:27PM
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I doubt this is true. I know that historically, Apple users were limited to Apple hardware by the nature of the architecture. However, Apple switched to using the same hardware as the rest of the PC world.
Another option would be to make a Hackintosh, actually; if you have a sufficiently powerful spare machine; this would also need the OS software, so virtualizing is probably just as easy.