I do not think the price of a PC vs a MAC is going to be a deciding factor on whether to develop for the iPhone or Android based phones. Statistically speaking, there is more money to be had developing for the iPhone & iPod Touch, and I think if you factor that along with the cost of a Mac, you are still going to come out ahead of the Android folks.
Personally, if I need to develop for the iPhone, I'll use my Fedora box and fire up VirtualBox to create a VM of OSX, actually I have an OSX VM image ready to go just in case. Otherwise, I'll stick with my *nix box and continue to code for Android. ~clark On Apr 6, 1:54 pm, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I'm about to get myself the 15" MacBook Pro @ 2.53 GHz for > various reasons (iphone development being the last one). > Trying to explain why you *have* to have a MacBook Pro is like trying > to explain to someone without kids why having kids is *so* great! > That is, you have to experience it ;) The only man on earth who was > kind of able to explain how cool Apple's products are is very > unfortunately dead. > > Cheers > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, [email protected] > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This weekend I had what I thought was a pretty good idea for a product > > on Android. But then I figured I didn't want an iPhone dev to steal > > the idea and cash in so to speak, so I figured I'd look into a > > simultaneous release on both platforms. > > > But I got a shock when I researched the cost of Macs this weekend. I > > have recently purchased a top-spec PC laptop for under £500 ($750). > > > For the same price I couldn't even get the lowest spec MacBook and if > > I was looking at a higher end MacBook Pro, I'd be looking at 3 to 4 > > times the price! > > > And ultimately the Mac is just another development tool that lets me > > browse the web, send emails and view pictures. I have read so much on > > Mac forums about better build quality, security and quicker setup > > times, but I have had no issues whatsoever with my new PC and I set it > > up in about 10 minutes! > > > Is it just me or are the Mac brigade trying to make themselves feel > > better about how much money they are burning on 'superior' Mac > > hardware? > > > Anyway, back to the point - could this be a driver in helping the > > Android market to eventually outperform the iPhone market? After all, > > once the momentum builds for Android and devs can see that they can > > use Java, make a minimal investment on hardware and make the same > > returns on their apps, why even consider the Mac route? > > > Also the economic recession could have an impact on Mac where casual > > users / developers cannot justify spending the extra money on a > > machine that ultimately does the same thing.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
