This might be a good missing link for PhoneGap Build - https://build.phonegap.com/ - which requires that you have a Mac for your certificates. I've seen a few people complain about not being able to use PhoneGap to build an iOS app because they don't have a Mac and don't want to buy one.
Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
11–20 of 177 posts
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#12Interesting idea. I wonder how the UI would feel, though, given the considering amount of compositing that Mac OS X uses.
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#13Conceptually awesome. Poorly delivered. Someone do this right and you will be making money.
What I'd like: Personal files/certs etc. on my local HD, then I log in to my cloud mac and it uses my local HD files as an external hard drive of sorts. or even uses dropbox for my files. Is this possible?
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#14Interesting concept/idea but a business model? Really theres a demand?
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#15What kind of Mac developer wouldn't just get a mac?
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#16Gonna be brutally honest here, those pricing plans are shit. Allow me to log in for an unlimited amount of time and lower the price a bit, and we'll talk.
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#17What kind of Mac developer wouldn't just get a mac?
Someone who doesn't have $1,500?
Edit: Well a Mac Mini is $600 (with no monitor), but still... if you could rent a virtual Mac for $20/month that's still over two years before you're money ahead.
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#18Conceptually awesome. Poorly delivered. Someone do this right and you will be making money. What I'd like: Personal files/certs etc. on my local HD, then I log in to my cloud mac and it uses my local HD files as an external hard drive of sorts. or even uses dropbox for my files. Is this possible?
If you scroll down to the "Where can I save my files?" section they do mention support for dropbox and other cloud based file storage systems.
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#19How would one deploy a iOS app using this service? It seems interesting since i don't own a Mac and am interested in iOS Development, but don't want to fork out the cash for a mac mini or something similar.
"I'd like to become an electrician, but don't want to fork out the money to buy wire cutters or something similar."
Yes, the analogy falls apart because you don't run proprietary software on wire-cutters. I understand that you might want to "try before you buy" with Mac and iOS dev, but I'm speaking to a slightly different issue.
If you want to do a job, you either acquire the tools to do the job (wire cutters/a Mac) or you Work Harder rather than Working Smarter (bend the wire until it breaks/shoehorn OS X onto a Hackintosh.)
Re: Rent a Mac in the cloud for development
#20What kind of Mac developer wouldn't just get a mac?
A good example is a site I do work on that seems to have very occasional problems with uploadify only on Macs. I can't recreate on any win-based browser, don't have access to a Mac and really don't want to have to buy yet another computer just for this very occasional bug.