You can pretty much guarantee there will be new Macs, but I think that Apple is now shifting its priorities. I'm under no illusion that there won't be more Macs in the offering. But this is the exception rather than the rule. Indeed, if you're one of the big game development shops producing a popular 3D title for multiple platforms, you're probably going to want a whole bunch in-house. You just need access to one, or an on-demand cluster of them as shared resources.
As a one-man development shop, you don't need to actually own a Mac for the purposes of compiling the code.
In fact, third parties such as MacStadium and MacinCloud already do this. While Microsoft doesn't currently have a solution in Azure to directly output application code for iOS and Mac, this is not something that would be difficult for it to implement, especially if it did this in partnership with Apple. But when it is ported to Azure, they will be able to do it all in the cloud much faster without pulling and pushing code over the internet. Microsoft is all about being the home for your code if its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub means anything to anyone.ĭevelopers use GitHub today as the repository of repositories to download, compile, and test their code using their own systems. Modern development environments such as Microsoft's Visual Studio allow you to work from a single unified codebase, and from there, deploy to Windows (on any architecture), Android, the Web, iOS, and, yes, the Mac. If you are a small shop, that's the smart way to do things and the most efficient use of developer resources. The current software development trend is to be multi-platform so that you have as many device targets as possible to consume your software.
You need access to a Mac running XCode to produce the object code, but it isn't necessary to use it as your primary development environment for most types of apps. A boutique businessīut a boutique business for who? Well, for that increasingly dwindling subset of content creators who absolutely must use a Mac to get work done - edge-case folks like David Gewirtz and folks who write software for iOS.īut even when you look at software development for iOS, owning a Mac is not really a hard requirement anymore. If Mac had a user base that was similar in size to what Microsoft has, it would have been an essential project for Apple to undertake in order breathe life back into the platform.īut Mac doesn't have Windows' vast user base in consumer and business it's a boutique business by comparison, albeit a valuable boutique business, which generates about $26 billion in revenue a year - around 12 percent of its net revenue. The entire Surface family of touchscreen PCs would have been impossible to create without this modernization effort.
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