The iPhone SDK
So, if Apple was wondering about me, and perhaps picking the petals off flowers going "He loves me, he loves me not," I think this time we ended up on "he loves me not."
The iPhone SDK only works on Mac OS X.
I do not own a Mac. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't own any machine on which OS X will run.
The explanation for this is, "It's all built around XCode and Objective C which don't work on other platforms."
Let's back up.
Why isn't XCode based on Eclipse? Then it would run on every platform.
Objective C works on Linux. Linux is an OS that developers use. Wouldn't it be nice to have an SDK that developers could use?
If the simulator only ran on a Mac, well okay, that wouldn't make sense since Macs are now Intel machines, but maybe there's some graphics interfaces that don't exist on other platforms. Fine.
But can't I at least get the ability to develop an iPhone app using the platform of my choice, instead of being ASSIMILATED INTO THE BORG COLLECTIVE just to write a program?
I expect to get approximately 1 billion comments now, since I'm complaining about something. It seems that happens whenever I complain about something. :-) Ah well. :-)
-Max
The iPhone SDK only works on Mac OS X.
I do not own a Mac. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't own any machine on which OS X will run.
The explanation for this is, "It's all built around XCode and Objective C which don't work on other platforms."
Let's back up.
Why isn't XCode based on Eclipse? Then it would run on every platform.
Objective C works on Linux. Linux is an OS that developers use. Wouldn't it be nice to have an SDK that developers could use?
If the simulator only ran on a Mac, well okay, that wouldn't make sense since Macs are now Intel machines, but maybe there's some graphics interfaces that don't exist on other platforms. Fine.
But can't I at least get the ability to develop an iPhone app using the platform of my choice, instead of being ASSIMILATED INTO THE BORG COLLECTIVE just to write a program?
I expect to get approximately 1 billion comments now, since I'm complaining about something. It seems that happens whenever I complain about something. :-) Ah well. :-)
-Max