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Posted by Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

iOS Advice

Hey i'm interested in doing the iOS courses soon as getting an iPad for Christmas and would like to do a few apps and such. However I am on a windows machine and don't have the cash to spend on a mac. Is there anyway I can get around this with a mac cloud service or other suggestions.

I have read around and a virtual Mac OSX on my computer would be unstable and sluggish.

Thanks

3 Answers

Kobus Pitzer
Kobus Pitzer
1,025 Points
Kobus Pitzer
Kobus Pitzer
1,025 Points

There are ways to design apps for Apple without having a mac, I think the program is called Adobe Flex. I have not used it before but I have seen people using it to create apps.

But I think you would like to follow the coding examples with Amit and his courses. For that I think the best idea would still be a virtual machine.

You can create a Hackintosh, a PC that runs Apple OS X but that is a difficult thing to do as well.

link removed due to Treehouse ToS violation

Micol Bellantoni
Micol Bellantoni
3,061 Points
Micol Bellantoni
Micol Bellantoni
3,061 Points

Mac are good, but really expensive, you are right! If you want to istall a mac virtual machine on windows here you can find a youtube tutorial link removed due to Treehouse ToS violation

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Micol Bellantoni - I removed your link because, the video you linked to uses a pirated version of OS X.

Quote from the linked video at time index 0:45

"I can not provide a link in the description due to copy infringement and piracy."

Kobus Pitzer -

It should be noted that the link posted comes with the following disclaimer

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Micol Bellantoni
Micol Bellantoni
3,061 Points

Ok, how can I do for remove my comment?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

> Is there anyway I can get around this with a mac cloud service

As a matter of fact, there's the appropriately named macincloud.com