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minus-squarehatter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 months agoWhy is there an iMac under iOS?
minus-squareSynthuir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-28 months agoWell, you can make/run AppStore apps on macOS, so I suppose that’s what they’re going for. More accurate maybe to say XCode?
minus-squarejadero@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoI assume it’s there because it (or other Mac) is a requirement for developing for iOS. Is that still true?
minus-squareeinsteinx2@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 months agoProbably because the newer ARM based can run (a lot of) native iOS apps, so it’s a test target as well now. EDIT: oh just realized this is from 2016 (right in the title duh) so my explanation doesn’t make sense
Why is there an iMac under iOS?
Well, you can make/run AppStore apps on macOS, so I suppose that’s what they’re going for. More accurate maybe to say XCode?
I assume it’s there because it (or other Mac) is a requirement for developing for iOS. Is that still true?
Probably because the newer ARM based can run (a lot of) native iOS apps, so it’s a test target as well now.
EDIT: oh just realized this is from 2016 (right in the title duh) so my explanation doesn’t make sense