Macbook Air 2012 models with 4GB soldered RAM ran fine on Mavericks and XCode 6, until Apple decided the newest XCode 6 to be Yosemite only. Now Yosemite is free, but is absolute abonimation on 2/4GB machines. On top of that, you have to run XCode. Not to mention the time debt required to upgrade.
Now, for indie developer setting, these issues might not be huge. But the problem here is - Apple puts businesses in awkward positions, when they have to bulk buy RAMs and upgrade all the systems just to compile on the newest minor release of iOS. Then, they started soldering RAM, so now to compile on 8.3, buy 25 new Macs or fuck off.
Apple's actions that screws us - solder RAM, make only latest XCode work with latest SDK, make OS impossible to run on low RAM, make XCode run only on newest OS.
Well that is just stupid, the macbook air is not a dev machine. Get a macbook pro or an imac and you are fine. Apple did not screw you, you screwed yourself for buying the cheapest they had to offer.
Now, for indie developer setting, these issues might not be huge. But the problem here is - Apple puts businesses in awkward positions, when they have to bulk buy RAMs and upgrade all the systems just to compile on the newest minor release of iOS. Then, they started soldering RAM, so now to compile on 8.3, buy 25 new Macs or fuck off.
Apple's actions that screws us - solder RAM, make only latest XCode work with latest SDK, make OS impossible to run on low RAM, make XCode run only on newest OS.