Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:How about an SDK emulator?
What is that exactly?
I'm not sure why anyone should even consider developing for the iphone on anything but OSX and in Objective-C. It's not an open API. The iphone OS is more or less a stripped down version of OSX and I hear rumors that the next IPhone will run a full blown OSX version or some sort. For Apple to attempt to allow any other kind of development in any other language would be a big mistake in my opinion.
Look, i know why someone would want to. Then they wouldn't have to buy a mac, which on the surface seem expensive. I thought that too, until I bought one. It is worth every penny. Really though, mine wasn't that expensive. $1200 for a Dual Core 2.0 GHz with 2GB RAM. Its a 13" and I hook it up to my 19" monitor when I am at home. The other day I spent another $200 on 2 more gigs of Ram to bring me to 4. I couldn't be happier with this bad boy.
Sure, that's more than a $600 dell you can get at Best Buy, but hey, with a Dell you get really horrible hardware and support. So you get what you pay for.