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4 edits | Same could be said of Android SDK. You have to have a Pee Cee or Mac to run it. A used Intel Mac (eg early Intel CS or CD Mini) that runs Leopard is a couple of hundred bucks ($399 refurbished with full warranty from TAS when they're in stock »store.apple.com/us/product/FB138LL/A), the same as a Pee Cee. And if you know Objective-C, you already have one.
Again, the dev box is the least of the challenges of developing for anything. Price isn't what is stopping "consumers" for writing software for their handsets. You could hand out brand new iMacs with pre-installed SDK for Android and iPhone and people aren't going to bother just as they don't bother with XCode or Visual Studio Express despite being free. Hell, it's rare to find a 'consumer' writing their own AppleScript and that is about as easy as it gets.
IOW, "consumers" couldn't care less about the SDK. If anything it will just make it easier for crap or malicious apps to find their way onto Android handsets. Even ITS with it's overbearing vetting process has apps leeching phone numbers and stuff. Imagine if no one was checking »[iPhone] First iPhone worm discovered - Rickrolls jailbroken pho |
