Application development for iPhone

Can I develop iPhone applications using Windows 7? If not, can I install Mac OS X besides Windo开发者_如何学运维ws 7? Is Mac OS X free? Thanks in advance.

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• NO
• YES
• NO (but rather cheap, somewhere around 30$ i guess)

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While samsam glibly answered YES to your second question, the end user license agreement places a bit of a restriction. You may install Mac OS X alongside Windows 7, as long as both are on an "Apple-badged computer" (i.e. on a Mac). You may install Windows on any computer you want, but Apple don't allow installation of Mac OS X on non-Apple computers. That said, there's little technology stopping such an installation.

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For basic apps you can use Titanium/similar (or at least could, I'm not quite up to date with Apple's current thinking on the matter) and that can be done from Windows, but for more complex apps where the browser just limits you too much (games, etc) you'll really need a Mac/Mac install.

If you want to Hackintosh, I'd still say it's better to get a new PC and do it - one where you know people have had success with those exact components. You could build a pretty decent PC for way cheaper than the equivalent Mac.

It is against the Mac OS T&C's to do Hackintosh, but as with perhaps Jailbreaking they're not doing all they could to prevent it (quite yet anyway...)