[glhaynes]

If you're going to want to run your iOS apps on actual devices (not just the built-in simulator), you'll need a $99/year iPhone Developer membership from Apple. Said membership comes with access to videos from this year's Worldwide Developer Conference, many of which will be helpful to you.

EDIT: They're available to free dev accounts as well! Thanks for the corrections.

[ugh]

You don’t need to pay the money to get access to the videos. A free developer account will do. That free program a really hard to find, though, here’s the link: http://developer.apple.com/programs/register/

[kingnothing]

The videos are also available with a free developer account. I don't have a link offhand but it's at the bottom of the signup page.

[scrod]

>"If you're going to want to run your iOS apps on actual devices (not just the built-in simulator), you'll need a $99/year iPhone Developer membership from Apple..."

Which is a good reason to get acclimated to Objective-C/Cocoa by writing desktop Mac OS X software _first_. You'd need a Mac in both cases, and there are no barriers to deployment.