I want to start this post by saying I am not a Mac fanboy, in fact I’ve hated everything Apple until the iPhone. I know I’m very late to the party with this post, but it’s only with the talk in AIT about introducing iPhone development into the Games Development course to replace J2ME that I’ve become interested in the sector. Granted, I doubt the college will actually introduce that, considering they thought it’d be perfectly fine to use Hackintoshes, and full development can be done with just the emulator in Mac. This obviously isn’t the case, and a full suite of Mac hardware – computers and iPhones/iPod Touches – would be needed to truly run an iPhone development module as part of the course.
Anyway, this brought me to realise how effective a single device can be in bringing people over to their platform. For the first time ever, I want a MacBook.

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