Just buy a mac. Why would you want to develop on windows anyway. Give yourself a break and develop on a proper platform.
> I think Apple is just like Microsoft but much worse. Wow you must be deluded if you believe that. Apple do what they do to ensure that their products and applications that run on it are of the highest quality. It is not like on Windows where any old rubbish is developed and written by second class developers. > iPhone is my first Apple device and it is probably my last one as > soon as there is a decent alternative with an open OS. Fine I'm sure Apple won't mind. On 1 Jul 2008, at 09:13, Wouter wrote: > > Well, there is a difference: there is only a marginal number of OSX > users and the main platform used is Windows. I think Apple is just > like Microsoft but much worse. They don't want to serve their > customers, they only want to make money. Why else is the OS on iPhone > so closed (even 2.0 has to be jailbreaked before it can be used) and > do they try to enforce you to use iPhone with stone-age iTunes and > expensive contracts. iPhone is my first Apple device and it is > probably my last one as soon as there is a decent alternative with an > open OS. > > I tried to get SDK working on Windows under Cygwin. Lot of work to > build. It seemed to work, I could create and compile an app without > errors, but somehow it does not run on my iPod. I had a look at Ubuntu > as alternative OS, but already at configuring it to work with my > screens it gave me trouble so I did not proceed with that. So I gave > up and am concentrating on developing PHP webapps for iPhone now. > People will need to install Apache and PHP on their iPhone, but that > is easy. The only problem is that you don't have GPS info directly, > but people are working on that. > > Wouter > > 2008/6/30 Andy Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> On 30.06.08 08:54, "Pulkit Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> hello ppl, i just wanted to ask, isnt there any way to work on the >>> iPhone SDK on Windows ?? >>> Why is Apple doing this to Windows users.. >> >> Well - it's the same reason, why there's no Exchange (or Visual C++ >> or .NET >> or Internet Explorer or...) on a Mac. So your best bet would be >> getting a >> (private) Mac ;-) >> >> a. >> >> >> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
