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I wish I could do this but I build mobile apps in addition to any backend stuff. Kinda need to be on an apple for making iOS apps.

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I know I'm just whining, but it's ridiculous this is still the case.

There's £2k+ worth of compute on my office desk, the size of a thick book that I haven't touched in years...

All because Apple deems it the only way to run xcode...

At least the client paid for the machine (enterprise, this was their way of having reproducable builds... Until the pandemic but a halt to their project)

Yeah, it certainly hurts a bit less if you're not the one paying for it.

I know we're in a high income profession, but buying another $2.5k+ laptop just for iphone development isn't a trivial expense if you do contracting (especially if you're not working 40 hours a week).

I do all of my mobile development cross-platform.

99% of the app dev happens on Android, and I just test on iOS when I need to--and for that I have an older, cheap, MacMini.

For your case sure, you only deal with iOS 1% of the time. For me it is 50%.

Well, that's why I use cross-platform tools. Heck, I often can simulate without even the Android emulator, if there's a Web or PC target for the cross-platform environment.

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