RE: Love Hate Apple -- YOU CANT DO iPhone DEV ON PPC
- From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:30:47 -0400
Ppc in machines that at most run Tiger only has usb 1.0 for their ports which
means usb 2.0 and above devices can't exchange data.
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kerneels Roos
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:14
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Love Hate Apple -- YOU CANT DO iPhone DEV ON PPC
In case anyone was wondering, you absolutely can't do iPhone development
on a PPC based Mac -- you need an Intel based Mac and a quite recent one
as well -- OSX 10.6 and above.
Although there is no small number of posts and blogs related to this
issue don't be deceived, it isn't really possible. It was possible for
old versions of the iPhone SDK (prior to 3.0, and most notably 2.2.1),
but somewhere along the line Apple stopped including universal binaries
able to run on PPC and Intel and now it's all just Intell all the way.
I would not mind to know the reason (technical reason) for Apple to stop
supporting PPC for iPhone development since it all looks like totally a
"we'll force you to buy a new Mac" strategy.... Believe me, the first
thing I'll do when I've saved enough is to buy a new Mac Mini, but until
then it would really have been nice not to be so restricted as is the
case with the second hand PPC based Mac Mini smiling at me from the
corner of my desk :-), reduced to a music box (although a very nice
music box).
So, although it's not nice to gripe and grovel I will say this; Apple,
what a bad move. Do you really think people *want* to keep working on
their slow,old machines forever? Not at all! The moment you have the
bucks you'll go out and get the latest, but dropping support for your
old hardware in this day and age, unless a very, very good technical
reason exists, is not really acceptable.
And that was the hate, the love is also there still crazy enough. For
any computer and music enthusiast even an old Mac that can't do iOS dev
still holds it's attractions.
--
Kerneels Roos
Cell: +27 (0)82 309 1998
Skype: cornelis.roos
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