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I can't bring myself to use iPhone because of the walled garden. Sorry, but I shouldn't have to pay $99 and own a licensed mac computer running OSX just to deve
by AUmrysh 11y ago
I can't bring myself to use iPhone because of the walled garden. Sorry, but I shouldn't have to pay $99 and own a licensed mac computer running OSX just to develop an app and test it on my phone.
Android has a couple editors now that let you develop an app directly on your device. The Apple DRM isn't even that hard to break, which is such a shame because the only people being hurt by it are legitimate customers and people looking to get into development for it.
Yes, you can jailbreak your iPhone and install unsigned code. You can even set up a compiler toolchain to build your iOS apps, but you shouldn't have to do all of that just to build an app for your phone.
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- happyscrappy 11y agoYou won't need to have a developers license to run code on your own phone sans jailbreak in iOS9.
- likeclockwork 11y agoYou still need a 2K OSX dongle to even use the tool chain though.
- bradleyland 11y agoThis doesn't alleviate the walled garden concern entirely, but I've been kind of held up in my desire to try iOS development because I always felt the $99 ADC subscription was a silly requirement just to test an app on my own device. I've learned that with the next release of OS X and iOS, developers will be able to test their apps on their own devices using only an Apple ID; no ADC subscription required. This is not an argument in support of Apple's approach. I just wanted to share what I'd learned about similar concerns.