[NTLK] [OT] Mac OS question

[James R Grinter]

On 12 Jul 2010, at 02:29, reilly001os at aol.com wrote:

> Actually if you comb the internet there are ways to get a powermac g4/g5 with 10.5 to install/run the iphone dev tools and simulator but there are issues IIRC so it would only really work for limited dev work,

Yes, but only with the 2.x SDK. Later ones don't have any PPC support at all (the simulator and libraries.)

> then you'd have to transfer your code to an Intel Mac to put the finish on and submit it to apple. That being said, when I looked into doing iphone dev work on a ppc machine  iphone os was still around 2.x and I don't think 10.6 was out yet.

And it's a lot of hassle to work with it.

For iOS 4.x you have to have a minimum of 10.6, and really iOS 4.x is where you want to be concentrating your effort.

James.