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by flipcoder 1157 days ago
Because then Apple wouldn't get its 30% cut or force you to buy a Mac to develop for iOS
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Completely agree. Apple allows educational programming because it doesn’t seriously jeaopardize their revenue. If they let you compile and run arbitrary code (I bet they already have this capability for debugging internally) with full system access, without jumping through major hoops, they wouldn’t be able to tax that activity.