Man I'm fed up of people asking this question... If you're serious about it, invest in the necessary tools, speculate to accumulate. We all paid for our hardware, people keep showing up asking us how they can get what we have put lots of time and money into, for free, it's getting frustrating.
Your best alternative is to wait for the Android runtime.
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Just buy a mac if you want to make games! or else stay away from it and buy the flash exporter or wait for the android exporter.
What's your problem? I was just asking if there was a cheaper way to get started developing for iOS if you don't currently own all that equipment. Its quite a sum to buy the exporter, licence, mac computer and iOS device all at the same time if you don't already own it. If that MacCloud rental would have been a viable option and if it worked properly it would have been much better for me to use then to go out and buy a Mac computer. Now I know that's a bad option and that actually buying a Mac is the only real option, I can look into that. Its quite frustrating with guys like you who pitch in and provide nothing, if you don't like the thread just stay away from it and it will die faster on its own.Originally Posted by DistantJ
Why should we have to pay for our stuff and you not? It'd be like going to a retail business forum website and saying "How do I start a retail business without having to pay for any stock? I want to cheat and make my money for free" ...asking that to people who have put a tonne of their time and money and hard work into getting their business going "oh please, show me how to do it for nothing and quickly, I shouldn't have to pay", you can't see why they'd find that frustrating, especially when it keeps happening over and over "hey guys I want to run a taxi business but don't want to pay for the license, any ideas?". If you don't think it's worth the investment then don't bother with it.
So when did I say that "I want to cheat and make my money for free"? And on a side note, if I could get it for cheaper or free and you got to pay for it, why would I care? I was asking if there was some alternative for having to buy a Mac computer, which I don't really have any other use for. When is that counted as cheating and getting stuff for free? If this Macincloud renting service had actually been a good option I would have feelt very stupid if I had gone out and bought a computer before I had tried that.
DistantJ, relax man!! Outcast said...."I was just wondering what is the best alternative for me? I don't feel that happy about going out and buying a Mac just for this and a iOS device (at least not now). Is there some other way?"
You could have chimed in with a little more respect and just said,.no man, unfortunately there is no other way around it.
This forum is here to help one another out,..isn't it? Shouldn't bash someone for just asking an innocent question.
Outcast,.just save a little at a time and purchase one thing at a time when you can. It will work out bro~!
the best option is probably to get a mac mini on the cheap (ebay, craigslist, etc) to start. Its the most affordable way, that's what I did.
Thanks that's some good advice! Maybe I can find a used Mac on some auction site and maybe sign up on some shady phone deal for a iphone.. :P Would rather have an ipad though! But maybe its not good to get latest model of iOS device or you will overestimate the performance you can use? Or is it possible to simulate slower performance on the iOS devices if you get a later model?
You can probably borrow or rent a Mac from someone, check if in your country there's any hackerspace -it has nothing to do with bad hackers or anything- (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace) and most likely you can find there someone willing to help you. That's what I would do.
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