How it all started … from PC to Mac
All my life I’ve been a PC with the small exceptions of using and programming on Apple ][ and playing with a Quadra for a little while. I started windows programming with Windows 3.0 and am still a windows programmer. While I found nothing wrong with the Windows experience, one day the inevitable happened and I got myself an iPhone.
I enjoy the smoothness and responsiveness of the user interface on the iPhone and the huge variety of applications available, so I started thinking about doing some programming for the iPhone myself. Why not – I enjoy programming and thought it would be fun to do so.
One day I started digging on how to get started and found out that the compiler available is for Mac OS X only, which for me was a challenge as at home I only have Windows machines. A friend switched recently to Mac and loves the experience, so after much consideration I decided to get a Mac and try it out.
Two days ago it arrived in a small shiny box, a brand new MacBook Pro 13″. I was very excited and started playing right away with it, but it was not as easy as I imagined, so I decided to try to document my experience.
Stay tuned to learn what happened …