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Originally Posted by LunarMoon
If I understood it correclty...
Unless you have 2 iPhones , in my oppinion, you should not update your device.
Simply because after upgrading you cannot go back to 2.21 and the worst part is, you cannot use SDK 3 to develop to 2.21.
I am not sure if SDK 2 works with an iPhone upgraded for OS 3, but if it doesn't, you are dead and you will have to stop developing until OS 3 is launched officially or buy another iPhone with 2.x...
This is insane. We have to buy an extra iPhone just to test?
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Eek, yes! This is definitely the strange mind of Apple showing through. See, at Apple, all of us developers are independently wealthy (which is why we sweat and struggle to write apps for the iPhone, obviously) and can afford five or six iPhones. Can't you?!
Look. My iPhone is both my REAL iPhone (the one I use) and for testing. I'm not putting OS 3 anywhere near it until it is officially released by Apple. And, praytell, how would one test against OS2.2.1 and OS3.0 on a single phone in the interim? Answer: YOU CANNOT.
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ETA: People do realize that we're in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, right? Half a million or more people are becoming unemployed every month (that's from official statistics) in the US alone. Penny pinching is my next greatest skill after programming and playing guitar (which may be on a street corner at these rates). Open eyes, drink coffee, see reality.
Robert
