I like you and I think your posts are generally high quality, so I am going to say that an elitist "screw people who cant afford an overpriced mac" is not a good thing imo.
Will we get some lower quality apps, sure, do those already exist? yeah. It just sounds like gatekeeping for not much benefit.
>I like you and I think your posts are generally high quality
Thanks! I try to add the ocassional low quality comment for balance :-)
>so I am going to say that an elitist "screw people who cant afford an overpriced mac" is not a good thing imo.
Well, my intented meaning was more like "Don't create/sell apps for a platform you dont even own to test in".
The main reason to go for "by the minute" builds on the Cloud for a machine you don't own is to either help with porting to an architecture you don't use, or to churn apps with some cross platform framework to a platform you don't use/care about.
I think the latter would be more frequent.
If they were mere poor hobbyists guys legitimately coding for the platform, they'd own a machine, either new, or second hand, or whatever. It's when you don't code in the platform, but only want to target it for selling that you have an issue...
> The main reason to go for "by the minute" builds on the Cloud for a machine you don't own is to either help with porting to an architecture you don't use, or to churn apps with some cross platform framework to a platform you don't use/care about.
You can also go for "by the minute" builds on the Cloud for a machine you do own. Suppose the developers and testers have Macs on their desks, but you still want to have your CI run in the Cloud. Now I'm not an expert on cloud pricing so I could be wrong, but I imagine you could benefit from paying by the minute in that case, depending on the specifics of your situation (builds per day, time per build, total cost of ownership of having a build farm in house).
Is that why web developers have their hands on every iteration of every device on the planet? Or do they have some sort of tooling that emulates that experience for them?
Will we get some lower quality apps, sure, do those already exist? yeah. It just sounds like gatekeeping for not much benefit.