<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="">I would have to agree with Jay. Just this last week, I decided
that I'd like to try my hand at making a couple simple apps for my
kids, and after much pulling of hair I don't have, I discovered
that to write apps for iOS you really have to have a mac
computer. To get xcode running on windows is a major, major
hassle. This scenario is such a non-starter for me. <br class="">
</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I’ve thought about it a bit and to be fair, CODEA has kept my ancient iPad relatively interesting, same with Swift Playgrounds - both of which can be used to do relatively simple programming without much fuss. I’m sure it’ll be more interesting in a decade or so ... </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="">So given Apple's general attitude towards even running their OS
in virtual environments, a true-blue retro community around early
iPhone is almost guaranteed not to happen outside of folks
emulating old apps on existing Apple devices. <br class=""></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I still keep hope that we’ll be able to run Linux on these old obsolete machines soon enough .. </div><div><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div>j.<br class="">—<br class="">Jay Vaughan<br class=""><a href="mailto:ibisum@gmail.com" class="">ibisum@gmail.com</a><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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