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Build an iOS app on Linux or Windows

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168 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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malloc-0x90 ◴[25 Jun 25 05:23 UTC] No.44373871[source]▶
Never built on Apple, last time I tried:

it asked me to update Xcode;

Xcode asked me to update the OS first;

and the OS asked me to buy a new 1300$€ MacBook hardware (with similar specs, the one I was using wasn't even that old/slow).

So to quote Rick and Morty i though: "That's just subscription with extra steps!" - and made a windows program and an Android app.

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zombot ◴[25 Jun 25 05:34 UTC] No.44373921[source]▶
Exactly. Apparently Apple still finds enough idiots who perform that dance, but they've lost me. I can only hope others will follow and xtool looks like it can help.
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1. razemio ◴[25 Jun 25 07:37 UTC] No.44374596[source]▶
I daily every os for 2-3 years and then switch. There are lots of benefits to OSX. Stability, perfect Standby and battery runtime to name a few. This would not be possible if they would support older Hardware. As long as windows and linux is unable to archive similar metrics, they prove apples point about this topic. Just look how fast everybody transitions to M Processors including the software developers. There is no point to stay on old hardware with apple.