Novell releases .net SDK to develop Iphone apps!!

[KLin]

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Wow

 

[KLin]

It costs 400 bucks for a personal license(1000 for enterprise license) and needs a mac in order to test on the Iphone SDK's emulator.


http://shop.novell.com/DRHM/se...PY&productID=163711300

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: KLin
It costs 400 bucks for a personal license(1000 for enterprise license) and needs a mac in order to test on the Iphone SDK's emulator.


http://shop.novell.com/DRHM/se...PY&productID=163711300

Sigh, that's not what I was expecting. The reason why I haven't bothered trying to write anything for the iPhone is because you have to own a Mac to test it. I don't care that it's in Objective-C, I just don't want to have to buy Mac OSX.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: Crusty

Originally posted by: KLin
It costs 400 bucks for a personal license(1000 for enterprise license) and needs a mac in order to test on the Iphone SDK's emulator.


http://shop.novell.com/DRHM/se...PY&productID=163711300

Sigh, that's not what I was expecting. The reason why I haven't bothered trying to write anything for the iPhone is because you have to own a Mac to test it. I don't care that it's in Objective-C, I just don't want to have to buy Mac OSX.

isn't it enough turn off?

On Windows and Linux everything is open. Programming tools are free and often open source. Except for some niche markets, that is.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

There's no way I'd develop for that platform unless I had a million dollar idea. They treat developers like crap, and there's no guarantee that your stuff will end up on their store. Months of work will be at the mercy of Apple employees. And they want me to pay for the privilege? No thanks.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
On Windows and Linux everything is open. Programming tools are free and often open source. Except for some niche markets, that is.

Windows: Only for the "Express" tools, or for students.

My MSDN costs my employer $2600 a year, but it does get me every version of XP, Vista, 7 and Server to play with.

XCode for OS X development and the apple dev network -are- free.

If you want to submit to the iPhone app store it's $99/year, but so is the new Windows Mobile app store (which sadly will NOT include Zune HD apps.)

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
On Windows and Linux everything is open. Programming tools are free and often open source. Except for some niche markets, that is.

Windows: Only for the "Express" tools, or for students.

My MSDN costs my employer $2600 a year, but it does get me every version of XP, Vista, 7 and Server to play with.

XCode for OS X development and the apple dev network -are- free.

If you want to submit to the iPhone app store it's $99/year, but so is the new Windows Mobile app store (which sadly will NOT include Zune HD apps.)

IDEs Eclipse, Netbeans, Qt framework are open and free.

No need for MS if you do C, C++, Java, PHP, Javascript, Python, Perl ... those cover most programming languages used.

Anyway, express edition is a lot for free.

Embedded market is still niche, only few platforms such as Java ME are free.

Since open source targets Linux as much as Windows, there's a lot free stuff like stuff I have listed.