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by duncanc4 1767 days ago
I hate this as a developer. I feel this is done to force you to buy newer hardware sooner. The SDKs could be decoupled from the Xcode version.

You can work around it a little bit by installing the iOS device support files manually without updating Xcode, but it only allows you to deploy to the device. If you want to build against the newer SDK, you have to update.

Going forward this is one of the reasons I don’t want to personally develop any more apps, as I don’t want to be forced to buy new macs every five years or so.